Singapore (ANTARA News) - The Singapore Airshow saw more than 13.4 billion US dollars in sales of aircraft and related equipment this week, thanks to a booming aviation market, organisers have said.
Another 2.6 billion dollars was generated from contracts for facilities and other services, they said in a statement issued late Friday, at the inaugural event.
The small but wealthy city-state decided to host its own airshow after organisers of the Asian Aerospace fair moved the event to Hong Kong after a long presence here.
The biggest deal announced at the airshow was an order for 56 Boeing 737-900ER aircraft worth more than 4.4 billion dollars by Indonesian low-cost carrier Lion Air.
Indonesian flag-carrier Garuda ordered four Boeing 777-300ERs worth 1.0 billion dollars and business jet operator BJets signed a 600-million-dollar contract for 40 Cessna and Hawker jets.
US-based Boeing's European rival said it had secured orders for five A330-200F cargo planes from BOC Aviation, an aircraft leasing firm fully owned by Bank of China.
The deal is worth a total of 877 million dollars at catalogue prices.
Brazilian aircraft-maker Embraer said US aircraft leasing firm Jetscape Inc has ordered 10 E190 jets, with options for another 10 and purchase rights for 10 more.
The deal is worth 375 million US dollars at list price. It could be worth up to 1.1 billion dollars if all the options and purchase rights are confirmed, Embraer said at the airshow.
Embraer also said Australia's Virgin Blue has signed a contract to exercise four purchase rights for E190 jets worth 150 million US dollars. This takes the number of firm orders from Virgin Blue to 24, consisting of six E170s and 18 E190s.
"The new deals announced at the airshow demonstrate once again that Asia is the world's fastest-growing aerospace market," managing director of the event's organisers Jimmy Lau was quoted by AFP as saying.
He said 70 percent of the exhibitors have already confirmed bookings for the biennial event in 2010.
More than 30,000 accredited industry professionals visited the show during the four trade days. The show was opened to the public at the weekend.
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