Air France option alive after Alitalia meeting-source

ROME, April 17 (Reuters) - An acquisition by Air France-KLM for Alitalia is one of the options still under consideration following a meeting on Thursday between top officials from Italy's outgoing and incoming governments, a source from the outgoing government said.

The source said that both centre-left Prime Minister Romano Prodi's government and conservative prime minister-elect Silvio Berlusconi were looking for a bipartisan solution to keep Alitalia flying, despite heavy losses.

(Reporting by Alberto Sisto)