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".
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