Boeing Wins $5.5 Billion Lufthansa Order for New 747 (Update1)

By Susanna Ray

Dec. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Boeing Co., the world's second-largest maker of commercial aircraft, won an order from Deutsche Lufthansa AG for 20 of the planned 747-8 passenger planes, worth $5.5 billion at list prices, dealing another blow to European rival Airbus SAS.

The U.S. planemaker will deliver the first of the 400-seat aircraft in 2010, Lufthansa, Europe's second-biggest airline, said in a statement today. The airline also placed a smaller order for seven Airbus A340-600s, to be delivered in 2008 and 2009. The total of the orders is worth $6.9 billion, the airline said.

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