Eitihad/Air Berlin and Air France/KLM are working towards and alliance which will include Alitalia. This is like to involve code-sharing and joint ventures to develop traffic between Europe, the Abu Dhabi hub and Asia. In particular Alitalia is likely to expand its network as a consquece of this proposed collaboration. Alitalia is expected to inaugurate services from Rome’s Fiumicino to Abu Dhabi, it previously has service Dubai. Etihad already serves Milan’s Malpensa with daily services in full code-share with Alitalia.