March 5, 2004

African airline Kenya Airways today announced that their complete fleet will migrate for navigation to electronically generated “Lido Route Manual”. Charts no longer have to be drawn manually; instead, Lido Route Manual generates them from a database that contains geographic and aeronautical information from all over the world, resulting in improved quality and increased security.

Lido Route Manual is part of a new generation of navigation support product. It provides comprehensive route planning data including detailed airport charts to pilots and flight planners.

Comprising all flight-relevant navigation data, the route manual has been designed to meet the specific usability needs for optimum flight preparation and execution. The scalability of Lido Route Manual charts is a great advantage for pilots as topographical information such as mountain heights, the courses of rivers etc. are presented to scale. Pilots can precisely calculate all activities such as take-off and landing procedures with regard to minimum sector altitudes and the time needed to complete a given distance.

The five-year deal with Lufthansa Systems also provides for Kenya Airways to use the Flight Information Viewer (FIV) Internet solution. FIV enables dispatcher and pilots to access the Internet from any PC or laptop during flight preparations on the ground and to download and print e.g. the most up-to-date charts. Using electronic media such as the Flight Information Viewer (FIV) results in optimized paper and logistics expenses and thus to a significant reduction of costs.

Note to editors:

Kenya Airways is one of the leading African airlines. Following a fleet renewal program, Kenya Airways owns one the most modern Boeing fleets comprising 16 B737-700 and B767-300 aircraft. From spring 2004, Kenya Airways will also be operating several Boeing B777 aircraft. From its base at Nairobi airport, Kenya Airways services regional destinations in Africa and destinations in Europe, India and the Middle East.

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 thirteen countries and employs about 4,200 people worldwide.