July 6, 2004

Lufthansa Systems today announced that it has successfully completed the modernization of 9,500 IT workplaces of Lufthansa Passage Airlines at 350 sites worldwide. The final sites were equipped with a new IT infrastructure by end of June. From now on, Lufthansa Passage will be using the standardized, Windows XP-based "Campus eXPerience" (CeXP) application platform throughout the company. This project has enabled Lufthansa Passage to simplify its application environment and thus to reduce its maintenance and administration costs.

As general contractor, Lufthansa Systems assumes responsibility and the entrepreneurial risk for the project. The IT provider‘s tasks also included the certification of individual applications. This ensured that the approximately 200 applications used at Lufthansa Passage work seamlessly with the new Windows XP-based systems. Lufthansa Systems will continue to support Lufthansa Passage in building, operating and continually optimizing its IT landscape.

The new IT infrastructure enables the full remote administration of PC workplaces and servers so that workplaces all over the world can be upgraded with new software components from a central location. An asset management system automatically provides administrators with up-to-date information about the installed hardware and software components. Such a comprehensive software support and administrative automation translates into cost savings.

Christoph Ganswindt, Director Information Management at Lufthansa Passage, comments: "The new platform has enabled us to reduce system operation and administration costs sustainably. The high degree of standardization of our workplaces also results in cost savings on the purchasing side. Overall, we will be able to achieve savings of up to 30 percent per workplace with the new IT infrastructure. The many years of roll-out project experience of Lufthansa Systems has been a key factor in the timely implementation of the project.“

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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 13 countries and employs about 4,400 people worldwide. In business year 2003, Lufthansa Systems recorded sales of EUR 610.7 million.