According to a report in today's Bristol Evening Post Macquarie Airports (the joint owner of BRS) is rumoured to be on a shortlist of companies lining up a multi-million pound bid to buy Exeter Airport.
Sydney-based Macquarie Airports Group is understood to be among five shortlisted companies and bids are expected to be 'close to £100 million'.
According to the Evening Post the other companies on the shortlist include TBI (can that be right, I thought they were giving up airports?), a consortium led by Wolverhampton Business Airport operator City Hopper, which recently paid £13 million for Blackpool Airport, and a new consortium headed by West Country TV boss Steven Redfarn.
Macquarie would make no comment when approached by the paper.
I have had to summarise because I have not been able to download a link to the full report.