April 11, 2006

Virgin Atlantic Airways is launching customer for Class II electronic flight bag solution

Lufthansa Systems and Virgin Atlantic have signed a contract to equip the British carrier’s entire fleet with a full-service Class II – electronic flight bag (EFB) solution. Project work is already well underway and the first Virgin Atlantic Airways flight with the SkyBook onboard is scheduled to take off in December 2006. In order to streamline information processes in the cockpit and to fulfill the high requirements with regard to information quality and speed, Lufthansa Systems has developed SkyBook, a hardware and airframe independent solution suitable for Class I notebooks as well as Class II aircraft installations. Thus SkyBook is not only reducing the volume of paperwork in airplane cockpits, but also outperforms devices that are linked to specific aircraft in terms of flexibility and cost efficiency.

“Our cooperation with Lufthansa Systems, Skybook puts us in a position to benefit from the very latest in technology. They really understand what we are looking for and are competent to work with us to get what we need, to speed up our processes and reduce costs,” explains Matt Lee, Director of Flight Operations at Virgin Atlantic.

By providing online access to current operational data and other relevant documents, SkyBook facilitates improved processes and substantial cost savings in the areas of training, aircraft maintenance, documentation delivery, printing, distribution and fuel costs. Thanks to its process-driven architecture covering all flight and ground processes, SkyBook enables Virgin Atlantic pilots to access information and solutions anywhere. Virgin Atlantic pilots will receive data updates for flight preparation and ground briefing at Heathrow, Gatwick and Manchester airports via USB key from replication servers and update stations. Updates at all other airports are accessed through the Internet using a web application. The Class II hardware that pilots will use in the flight deck is the navAero t·BagC2² EFB with the t·Pad 1000 10.4” touchscreen display from Navaero.

“By launching SkyBook, Lufthansa Systems has again demonstrated its commitment to bring innovative and customer-oriented solutions to the airline and aviation industry. SkyBook will enable Virgin Atlantic to benefit from further applications along the process chain of flight operations, most notably Lufthansa Systems’ eRouteManual electronic charting solution, the Lido OC route planning system and Topas (Take-off Performance Calculation),” comments Dr. Gunter Küchler, Managing Director of Lufthansa Systems.

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 4,550 people worldwide. In business year 2005, Lufthansa Systems recorded sales of EUR 635 million. For more details, see www.LHsystems.com.

Since it was founded in 1984, Virgin Atlantic Airways has become Britain's second largest carrier serving the world's major cities. Now based at both London's Gatwick and Heathrow airports, it operates long haul services to twenty-six destinations world-wide as far apart as
Las Vegas, Dubai and Sydney.

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