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Founded in 1961, Air Partner is a global aviation services group providing aircraft charter services and aviation safety & security.
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Charter work represents Air Partner's largest income stream at 87% of the group's profits.[1]
In April 2022, Air Partner group was acquired by Wheels Up and delisted from the London Stock Exchange.[2]
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2003: Air Partner delivers at least 4,000 tonnes of military supplies during the first Gulf War. In an interview, chairman Tony Mack explained: "The Gulf War was a windfall for us. We’d hate to say ‘yippee, we’re going to war’, but I guess the net effect would be positive."[3]
2006: The JetCard membership scheme is unveiled. JetCard offers benefits for regular flyers.[4]
UK headquarter moves to a larger premises alongside London Gatwick Airport, opposite The Beehive - Gatwick’s original terminal building with its grass runways, which opened in 1936.[5] The company first began trading here in 1961 and has remained within 1 km ever since.
Air Partner was awarded a four-year contract with the Department for International Development (DfID) to become its “sole provider of passenger and freight air charter services”,[6] and had been hired to be a charter broker to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Crisis Centre.[7]
2015: Air Partner acquires Cabot Aviation and Baines Simmons.[8]
Air Partner acquires SafeSkys.[9]
Air Partner acquires Redline.[10]
2020: Air Partner provides vital support throughout the global COVID-19 pandemic, including transporting medical supplies and PPE[11] as well as evacuating over 300 British and EU nationals from Wuhan.[12]
2021 Acquisition of Kenyon International Emergency Services Inc.[13]
Between August 2021 and February 2022, the Austrian government awarded Air Partner six Frontex-funded deportation contracts, worth an estimated average of €33,796.[14]
2022 Air Partner Plc acquired by Wheels Up and delisted from the London Stock Exchange.[2]
In August 2022, Air Partner was awarded a €15 million framework contract to arrange charter deportations for the European Coast Guard and Border Agency, Frontex.[14]
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