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Dubai's fast-growing airline Emirates kicked off the region's biggest airshow Sunday with an order for 50 Boeing 777s, which the U.S.-based aircraft maker described as its biggest single order in dollar terms in history.

The World Trade Organization has ruled that some U.S. government aid to aircraft maker Boeing Co. is illegal.

Brazilian aircraft maker Embraer says it is still awaiting Beijing's permission to assemble a more advanced plane in China that would keep its joint venture in the country open.

Union workers at Boeing Co.'s Rotorcraft plant near Philadelphia have ratified a new five-year contract with the aircraft maker that will give them raises of 2 percent to 4 percent a year and a lump-sum payment of $3,500 in the first year, the company and the union said Sunday.

The European aircraft maker predicted demand for new planes would remain healthy over the next 20 years due to steady air-traffic growth in the developing world.