April 6, 2006

Operation of its global WAN by Lufthansa Systems will deliver significant line cost savings for the catering company

Lufthansa Systems today announced that it will operate the global Wide Area Network (WAN) of LSG Sky Chefs and provide all WAN services for the catering company, connecting more than 140 LSG Sky Chef sites worldwide. Outsourcing its WAN operations to Lufthansa Systems will enable the catering company to increase the flexibility of its core business, minimize risks and leverage technical expertise and thus to achieve significant cost savings immediately.

"The increasing globalization of today's markets forces internationally operating companies such as LSG Sky Chefs to look for more economical and efficient ways to operate their wide area networks and communication services," said Stefan Hansen, Senior Vice President Infrastructure Services at Lufthansa Systems. "By outsourcing its WAN to Lufthansa Systems, LSG Sky Chefs will be able to focus all of its resources on its core competencies and achieve cost savings at the same time."

Reliable services are essential to ensure the delivery of meals to passengers. As an international company with 190 branches in 49 countries, LSG Sky Chefs must be able to rely on efficient communication services. This applies to internal processes and the connection between different sites as well as to cooperation with customers, partners and suppliers.

Andreas Dürkop, CIO of LSG Lufthansa Service Holding AG, commented: "The global networking of business processes via flexible communication structures is of critical importance to our enterprise. Selecting Lufthansa Systems as our partner will ensure trouble-free communication both within the company and with suppliers, partners and customers."

LSG Sky Chefs benefits from this collaboration from a technical, economic and operational perspective as the operation of a global WAN for the exchange of information between distributed computers over long distances offers more advantages than maintaining point-to-point connections and sub-networks within established structures. In such a WAN, non-transparent and undocumented processes that make international communication more difficult are a thing of the past.

Note to editors:
LSG Sky Chefs is the world’s largest provider of airline catering and in-flight solutions. LSG Sky Chefs caters 270 airlines from almost 190 customer service centers in 49 countries and produces around 369 million airline meals a year. In 2005, the companies belonging to the LSG Sky Chefs Group achieved consolidated revenues of EUR 2.2 billion.

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 4,550 people worldwide. In business year 2005, Lufthansa Systems recorded sales of EUR 634.7 million.

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Lufthansa Systems AG
Sandra Hammer
Corporate Communications
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