Does this not get to my post about the possibilty of the French trying to dominate the market by using KLM and Alitalia as a foothold?
Having worked for the French production wise on the A380 project, It has become apparent that the French are intent on centralising the total aviation industry within France.
As far as the French are concerned, airbus is French and French only, not a european project, or is that just clever marketing. not sure.
The whole debacle with EADS, the French government and now the possible buyout of alitalia, smacks of the French putting their fingers into too many pies for the self serving French government.
IIRC, Fokker was bankrupted due to French interference and I can see the same happening to KLM and Alitalia and Airbus.
TW