August 18, 2005

üstra Hannoversche Verkehrsbetriebe AG, the transit authority for the city of Hannover, will equip its service center and sales outlets with EasyTicket, the electronic cash register system from Lufthansa Systems. Using the new system will enable üstra to provide a faster and more secure service for its passengers. As EasyTicket is completely webbased, the deployment of the solution also ushers in a new technological era for üstra.

Equipping the points of sales with the cash register system is beneficial for the sales staff and customers alike. Thanks to EasyTicket, sales outlets no longer need conventional tear-off ticket pads, because tickets can be printed conveniently and easily with the new sales system. EasyTicket makes it possible to handle all business transactions at the point of sale (such as
the sale of regular, special and combination tickets, as well as exchanges and the handling of vouchers). EasyTicket also automates the related administrative activities so that sales staff can spend more of their valuable time on advising their customers.

üstra will be the first transit company to deploy the web-based version of EasyTicket. This makes it possible to update product and fare information simultaneously for all service terminals. "With EasyTicket, we are breaking new ground in our sales organization. We not only improve our customer service at the point of sale with the new cash register system. Thanks to
the web-based design of the solution, we can also maintain and distribute information for all POS systems from a central location, which reduces our administrative efforts greatly," said Mathias Lindscheid, project manager at üstra Hannoversche Verkehrsbetriebe AG. "Given that EasyTicket is a system that features cutting-edge technology, we can position ourselves as an innovative company in the market."

üstra has been collaborating successfully with Lufthansa Systems for several years. The transit company has been using the sales control and billing system PATRIS® (Passenger Transport Integrated Sales System) since 2001.

The Lufthansa Systems products for public transportation are already being employed by around 20 German transit authorities, including Kölner Verkehrs-Betriebe, S-Bahn Berlin, Bochum-Gelsenkirchener Straßenbahn AG, Stadtwerke Bonn, Rostocker Straßenbahn and Leipziger Verkehrbetriebe.

Note to editors:

Lufthansa Systems is one of the leading IT service providers for the airline and aviation industries worldwide. As systems integrator, the wholly-owned subsidiary of the Lufthansa Group covers the entire range of IT services, including consulting, development, implementation and operation. Lufthansa Systems provides its IT infrastructure and operations services to a variety of industries. Headquartered in Kelsterbach near Frankfurt/Main, Germany, the company has branches in Germany and 17 countries and employs about 4,500 people worldwide. In business year 2004, Lufthansa Systems
recorded sales of EUR 628 million. For more details, see www.LHsystems.com.