The Boeing Company said it had received an order valued at about $400 million for 15 of its 737-300 twin-jets from Nordstress Ltd. of Hong Kong.

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Lufthansa converted three options for Boeing 747-400's to firm orders valued at about $375 million, Boeing said.

At the 2011 Paris Air Show, Airbus received total orders valued at about $72.2 billion for 730 aircraft, representing a new record in the civil aviation industry.

The order, valued at $2 billion, comes two months after a $3.6 billion order for 777's from British Airways, and brings the number of customers for the new plane to six.

Airbus said in April that it would sell two A300 jets to Iran Air, an order valued at an estimated $170 million.

They said commissions on stock-trade orders valued at more than $5,000 would be increased by 5 percent.

U.P.S., the largest package delivery company in the world, had originally expected its order - valued at $2.8 billion - to be delivered beginning in 2010.

The McDonnell Douglas Corporation said China Eastern Airlines had agreed to buy five MD-11 jetliners in an order valued at more than $500 million.

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