Members of CAI, the 16-strong consortium were meeting today (October 2) to discuss final details of its rescue plan for Alitalia.
The €1bn plan, which involves more than 3,000 redundancies at the bankrupt carrier, has been accepted by the airline's nine unions.
The last two came aboard after last ditch talks earlier this week.
The focus is now shifting to whom the consortium and Italian government will pick as Alitalia's foreign partner.
The German carrier Lufthansa is emerging as the favourite ahead of Air France KLM.
But one report in the Italian press said today that BA, while not interested in buying a stake in Alitalia, might favour a commercial deal with the airline.
Any partner would have a stake as around 20% as the Italian government has made it clear, it must be a minority holding.
Under the CAI rescue, it will buy the government's 49.9% stake and merge the profitable parts of the airline with rival Air One.
The unprofitable parts would be liquidated.
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