Look at this:
Alitalia shares rose more than 5 per cent Tuesday after newspaper reports KLM-Air France and the U.S. buyout firm Texas Pacific Group were interested in buying the failing airline a week after the government efforts to sell it crumbled.(...) The Dutch newspaper De Telegraf, citing sources close to management in the French-Dutch airline, said Air France-KLM was back in the race for Alitalia.
On the other hand:
Italy is happy to sell Alitalia to anyone willing to turn the loss-making national airline around -- no matter whether the new owners are Eskimos or Chinese, an Italian minister said
