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The aircraft are to be delivered between 2016 and 2020 per
the agreement, which was disclosed Monday in a Air China
regulatory filing.
The order comes four months after Boeing Co <BA.N> won an order
for 80 737 planes from Singapore-based BOC Aviation.
Boeing said in September it expects China to need more than
6,020 aircraft in the next 20 years, an 8 percent rise over last
year's two-decade estimate, as growing overseas leisure travel
drives demand.
That same month Boeing delivered the first of seven 747-8
Intercontinental jumbo jets to Air China, which was one of the
few carriers to order the fuel efficient aircraft.
(Reporting by Twinnie Su and Gerry Shih, editing by Louise
Heavens)
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