阿航180亿美元订购50架波音777

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Emirates Airlines kick-started the Dubai Airshow with a record $18bn (£11bn) order for 50 Boeing 777s.

The US plane manufacturer was handed a flying start over its European rival Airbus, which is expected to receive a new order from Qatar Airways, according to industry sources.

Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al-Maktoum, Emirates's chairman and chief executive, said: "This order represents a milestone. It is the single largest dollar-value order in Boeing's history."

The order outstrips the total value of orders announced at the last Dubai Airshow in 2009, when the global financial crisis restricted spending to just over $14bn.

Manufacturers had chalked up orders for aircraft worth a huge $155.5bn at the 2007 show.

Sheikh Ahmed said the new order affirmed Emirates's strategy to "expand our long haul destinations and continue to excel as a world leading carrier, connecting the world to Dubai and beyond".

Emirates has a fleet of 162 wide-bodied aircraft serving 115 destinations in 67 countries.

Last year, the company, one of the world's fastest growing carriers, placed an order for 30 Boeing 777 planes worth $9.1bn at Britain's Farnborough show.