Aviation body could ground Alitalia in 10 days

ROME, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Italy's civil aviation authority ENAC will ground Alitalia AZPIa.MI flights in 7-10 days from next Monday if the special administrator does not present a new rescue plan to them that day, a source at ENAC said on Friday.

"From Monday if there is no news proceedures will be started and within a week, 10 days at most, if there is no positive outcome Alitalia flights will be stopped," said the source.

The airline's special administrator, Augusto Fantozzi, is due to meet the aviation body on Monday after Italian consortium CAI withdrew its offer to buy part of the airline on Thursday, in the face of union opposition to job losses.

(Reporting by Stefano Bernabei; writing by Stephen Brown)