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The aviation giant Boeing said Monday that it had obtained an order for 30 of its wide-body 777 jets from Emirates Airline of Dubai.

The plane maker did not reveal the value of the deal in a statement, but the transaction would be worth nearly $7 billion at list prices.  The deal, announced at the Farnborough Air Show in Britain, is a sign that commercial aviation, and Boeing’s fortunes, are starting to recover from the global recession.  “Today’s order underscores the airline’s confidence in the airplane which forms the backbone of its fleet,“ Jim Albaugh, chief executive of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, said in the statement. “For that we are very grateful.”  Sheik Ahmed bin Saeed al-Maktoum, chairman and chief executive of Emirates, added: “Since we took delivery of our first 777 14 years ago, the airplane’s reliability, performance and operating economics have firmly established it as the backbone of our fleet.”  Emirates took delivery of its first Boeing 777 — a 777-200 — in 1996, and since then the airline has deployed the 777 on short-, medium- and long-haul routes.  The order could be one of the largest at the show.Farnborough, outside London, alternates with Paris each year as the site of the industry’s most prominent event, and executives are looking for further signs of an upswing there.  Airbus, Boeing’s European rival, has sold 131 commercial planes this year. Its chief operating officer, John Leahy, told reporters on Saturday that Airbus could double that number through orders at the show.  Before the announcement Monday, Boeing had said that it received orders for 177 planes this year. It also flew its new mid-size 787 Dreamliner jet, which is undergoing testing, to the show.Last month, Emirates, the largest Arab airline, ordered 32 Airbus A380 superjumbo jets, valued at about $11 billion.  Both Boeing and Airbus are presumably providing discounts to Emirates on the latest orders, though the extent of the discounts could not be determined.  The orders from Emirates, which carries passengers from all over the world through its Dubai base, illustrate how the recovery is being led by airlines in the Middle East.  Boeing and Airbus both released forecasts recently suggesting that commercial air traffic, which dipped last year, would return over the next several years to its historic average growth rate of 5 percent each year.The sharpest growth and demand for new planes will occur in the Middle East and China. The United States and Europe are expected to rebound more slowly.  Also on Monday, The Associated Press reported that GE Capital Aviation Services had ordered 40 Boeing 737-800 planes for $3 billion at list prices.

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DUBAI – An Indian man and woman, working as cabin crew for Emirates airlines, have received a jail sentence here for exchanging steamy text messages, a media report said Thursday.
The man, 47, and the woman, 42, worked as cabin crew for Emirates airlines and were sentenced to three months in jail, said authorities.
The text messages came up in a divorce case by the woman’s estranged husband.
The court ruled there wasn’t enough evidence to determine whether the couple had an affair – that would have likely brought a harsher sentence.
A court had sentenced them to six months in jail followed by deportation in December. However, an appeals court reduced the jail period and gave them the option to remain in the country.