Alitalia's adviser will soon present details of the airline's rescue plan to British Airways, considered by Italy as a possible foreign partner for the bankrupt airline, an executive told a newspaper.

"Soon we will present the plan to British Airways as well," an executive at Intesa Sanpaolo, the Italian bank behind the plan, said in an interview published in business daily Il Sole 24 Ore on Saturday.

Gaetano Micciche, who heads the bank's corporate and investment banking division, has already presented the plan to Air France-KLM and Lufthansa, and he said he had got a positive response from both airlines.

An industry source last month said British Airways would not consider a partnership with Alitalia.