September 7, 2006

Lufthansa Systems today announced that as of October 1, 2006, LSG Sky Chefs will outsource its entire IT infrastructure in Europe and North America to the IT provider. Lufthansa Systems will control and optimize data centers, desktop services and telecommunications services, allowing LSG Sky Chefs to generate significant cost savings and focus more intensely on its core business.

“Our IT landscape must offer high availability and dynamic resource allocation, and it has to meet the security demands of a global company," explained Walter Gehl, CEO of LSG Sky Chefs. The strategic outsourcing partnership with Lufthansa Systems enables us to meet these criteria. At the same time, we will benefit especially from the reliable IT infrastructure in the Lufthansa Systems data centers.“ By implementing quantifiable service level agreements, LSG Sky Chefs will be able to continually monitor the services offered by Lufthansa Systems and the costs associated with them.

Lufthansa Systems will assume responsibility for the systems starting in October of this year and will carry out extensive migration projects by mid 2007. In a first step, Lufthansa Systems will take over the provision and operation of 4,400 PCs, 2,700 printers, 3,650 telephones, 450 application servers and 700 other devices for LSG Sky Chefs.

“By taking over the entire IT and communications infrastructure, we can offer tools and processes which will help LSG Sky Chefs achieve better cost transparency and optimization," explained Dr. Gunter Küchler, member of the Executive Board of Lufthansa Systems AG. "At the same time, we will standardize the IT landscape of LSG Sky Chefs in line with the company's IT strategy, which aims at further consolidating the existing IT infrastructure and applications.

In spring of this year, the two companies signed an outsourcing agreement for the worldwide provision of WAN services for LSG Sky Chefs. The decision to outsource the entire IT infrastructure to Lufthansa Systems for the next ten years is based on positive experiences and is consistent with the IT strategy of LSG Sky Chefs to focus on the further optimization of its catering operations while handing over the stable and cost-efficient operation of its IT systems to a strategic partner.

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LSG Sky Chefs is the world's leading 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 635 million.

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