Boeing Co. won an order for $8.8 billion in jets from BOC Aviation Pte. as the aircraft lessor made its biggest-ever purchase to help meet surging travel demand in Asia.
Most of the 82 planes are from Boeing's top-selling 737 family, split between 50 of the upgraded Max 8 and 30 of the current -800 version, Singapore-based BOC Aviation said Monday by email. BOC Aviation, a unit of Bank of China Ltd., also will take two wide-body 777s.
"We want to be in the younger end of the market," BOC Aviation Managing Director Robert Martin said in a telephone interview Monday. "We want the most fuel-efficient planes."