Company Watch - Lufthansa.

Lufthansa and BusinessJet Class Sign Private Jet Agreement. BusinessJet Class, the first marketing and automated distribution system for private jet charter, has signed an agreement with Lufthansa, the first commercial carrier to offer its own private jet service, Lufthansa Private Jet. This agreement now gives travel agents the ability to book Lufthansa scheduled flights in conjunction with Lufthansa Private Jet flights, seamlessly and exclusively on the BusinessJet Class reservation system. Apr 4, 2006

Lufthansa Flight Training ordered a 737NG FFS X Non Zero Flight Time simulator from Mechtronix. It will be based in the LFT center at Berlin Schoenefeld and ready for use in summer 2007. Main customer will be Hapagfly. Apr 7, 2006

Lufthansa Systems plans to increase its share of revenue from customers outside Lufthansa Group from 40% to 60% by 2010, LHS CEO Wolfgang Gohde said as he announced operating results of [euro]63 million ($76.8 million) on turnover of [euro]634.7 million for 2005. Business with clients outside Lufthansa Group grew 15% to [euro]256.8 million. Apr 6, 2006

Lufthansa signed a full-content distribution agreement with Worldspan. In addition to resulting in lower distribution costs, "Worldspan has provided technology tools to help lower our overall IT expenditure," said Josef Bogdanski, LH senior VP-sales-Germany and global key accounts. Apr 7, 2006

Swiss World Cargo and Lufthansa Cargo Charter signed a marketing and sales cooperation agreement last week enabling Swiss to sell charter capacity on Lufthansa flights. Apr 3, 2006