Air France denies it made offer to buy Alitalia
PARIS, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Air France (Paris: FR0000031122 - news) on Saturday (Shenzhen: 002291.SZ - news) denied that it had made an offer to buy the struggling airline Alitalia (Stuttgart: 2278962.SG - news) , a day after Italy's industry minister said the French flag carrier had made a joint bid with budget airline EasyJet (Hamburg: 14862522.HM - news) .
"Air France-KLM (LSE: 0LN7.L - news) denies having made an offer to buy Alitalia," Air France said in a statement. (Reporting by Richard Lough and Cyril Altmeyer)