ILFC becomes Boeing 787 Dreamliner's largest customer with 74 firm orders
21 Jun 2007
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Le Bourget, Paris: US lessor, International Lease Finance (ILFC), has ordered 63 additional Boeing aircraft, including 52 more Boeing 787 Dreamliners.
ILFC's order includes new orders for 50 Boeing 787s and the conversion of options on two of the aircraft to firm orders. The new order takes its firm orders for the type to 74, making it Boeing's largest customer for the 787.
ILFC will take regular delivery of this new batch of 787 aircraft between early 2010 and the spring of 2017.
At the Paris Air Show, the lessor also disclosed that it had ordered ten more Boeing 737s, extending deliveries of the type to the company through until 2012.
ILFC has also converted a single option on a 777-300ER into a firm order, for delivery in early 2009.
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