Trip Support & Flight Planning
International trip support providers and flight planning services: overflight and landing permits, computerised flight plans and weather, slots and PPRs, ground handling and fuel coordination, HOTAC and crew logistics, and 24/7 flight following. These are the companies calling your FBO to arrange the handling.
Trip support is the desk that turns a multi-leg international itinerary into filed flight plans, overflight and landing permits, airport slots, fuel releases, handling arrangements, crew hotels, and a phone number that answers at 3 a.m. Business jet operators, charter companies, cargo carriers, and flight departments buy it because most of them cannot staff a 24/7 operations centre with permit specialists for every region they fly to.
For an FBO, these companies are customers and counterparties at the same time. A trip support desk in Houston or Dubai is often the party requesting handling, arranging a fuel release, and confirming crew transport for an arrival — so their handling-request formats, payment terms, and contract fuel programs shape a good share of transient traffic. Several fuel suppliers run trip support desks of their own (World Kinect, Avfuel's Avplan, AEG Fuels), and a few trip support providers own FBO networks (Jetex); the profiles say which is which.
When comparing: ask where the operations centres are and whether coverage is genuinely 24/7 across time zones, which regions the permit team handles in-house versus through agents, whether fuel is sold direct or via a contract program, whether there is a customer-facing platform for trip status, and how handling is arranged — through the provider's own stations, its own FBOs, or a supplier network.
Dubai-based flight support provider, established 1998: overflight and landing permits, flight planning, ground handling coordination, Jet A-1 fuel releases, HOTAC and crew logistics, and private charter, 24/7.
AEG Fuels
UnclaimedAviation fuel supplier and trip support provider serving FBOs, operators, and flight departments at 3,000+ locations.
Avplan Trip Support
UnclaimedAvfuel Corporation's trip support division: flight planning and 24-hour meteorology, permits and APIS filing, ground handling, contract fuel through Avfuel's network, and hotel and transport arrangements, complete or à la carte.
ForeFlight Trip Support
UnclaimedTrip support service of Jeppesen ForeFlight (formerly Jeppesen International Trip Planning): 24/7 certified dispatchers handling permits, fuel coordination at 3,500+ airports, ground handling, catering, slots, and flight following.
Houston trip support and flight planning for corporate aviation: permits, customs and eAPIS, visas, weather, security, transport, hotels, catering, EU-ETS support, contract fuel via affiliate MGAS, and the iTrip app.
Jetex
UnclaimedDubai-headquartered flight support and FBO operator: 24/7 trip planning, permits, ground handling, fuel, private jet charter, and concierge through its own network of private terminals.
Skyplan Services
UnclaimedCalgary flight planning and trip support with a 24/7 licensed dispatch team: international trip planning, permits, slots, contract fuel, handling coordination, flight following, and the Aurora flight planning system.
UAS International Trip Support
UnclaimedTrip support provider with 24/7 operations centres in Dubai, Houston, and Beijing: flight planning, permits, ground handling and fuel coordination, crew logistics, flight monitoring, air charter, and the GTMx platform.
Universal Weather and Aviation
UnclaimedHouston-based international trip support: flight planning and weather, permits, slots and PPRs, regulatory services, flight following, hotels and security, and the uvGO and Feasibility-IQ platforms.
World Kinect Aviation
UnclaimedContract fuel and branded supply for FBOs and operators; fuel programs, technology, and trip support.
Questions about trip support & flight planning
- What does a trip support company do?
- It plans and coordinates the ground side of a flight: overflight and landing permits, computerised flight plans and weather briefings, airport slots and PPRs, ground handling and fuel arrangements, customs and APIS filings, crew hotels and transport, and flight following while the aircraft is airborne. Operators use it for international legs and for regions where they have no local relationships.
- How is a trip support provider different from an FBO?
- An FBO is the facility on the field that fuels, parks, and services the aircraft. A trip support provider is the desk that arranges those services on the operator's behalf, often at dozens of airports on one trip. Some providers also operate FBOs of their own — Jetex runs a network of private terminals — but most coordinate handling through the FBOs and ground agents already on the airport.
- Do fuel suppliers offer trip support?
- Several do. World Kinect, Avfuel (through Avplan Trip Support), and AEG Fuels all run trip support desks alongside contract fuel programs, and in November 2025 World Fuel Services acquired the trip support business of Universal Weather and Aviation. Those companies appear in both this category and Fuel Suppliers.
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