FS says may weigh Alitalia plan if asked

(ANSA) - Berlin, September 18 - Ferrovie dello Stato (FS) CEO Gianfranco Battisti said Tuesday the rail company might consider taking part in troubled airline Alitalia's next business plan if it were asked to do so.
    "We are an open company, that looks to the future, and in that sense if we were asked for a commitment to assess an industrial plan that could make an aeronautical business sustainable, why shouldn't we assess it?" he said.
    Italian post office (Poste Italiane) CEO Matteo Del Fante meanwhile said "we have not had any kind of interest in the Alitalia dossier, so I'm reading that in the press".
    Boeing is a possible partner for Alitalia while Lufthansa is "not among the more strategic partners," Transport Minister Danilo Toninelli said Tuesday.
    Boeing, he said "can certainly be considered a partner, considering the fact that it builds plane and we need a lot of them," he said.
    Asked about Lufthansa, the minister said: "Today I would not talk of airlines in particular, even though I think Lufthansa is not among the more strategic partners".
    Toninelli said "I think that October may be a month in which some issues can be solved, but certainly by the end of the year we will have a solution".