
Shares in Gatwick-based private jet chartering outfit Air Partner are up 52% today, just a shade below the premium offered by US suitor Wheels Up in a takeover bid disclosed this morning.
Directors at Air Partner, which has been ferrying the elites around the world for 60 years, have agreed to the terms of the 125p-a-share all-cash bid which values the broker at £84.8 million.