Boeing chalks up widebody milestones.

Boeing has announced that an order from Brazil's TAM Airlines for four additional 777-300ERs received on 29 August brings to 1,003 the number of 777s ordered since the first order was booked in 1990. The announcement also means that, to date in 2007, Boeing has received orders for one hundred 777s.

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TAM was the first Latin American airline to incorporate the 777-300ER into its long-range fleet plan when it booked its initial order for four 777-300ERs earlier this year. TAM's first 777-300ER is scheduled to be delivered in June 2008. Prior to ordering these eight 777s, TAM was an exclusive Airbus operator.

Two days previously Boeing recorded another milestone with the delivery of the 3,000th widebody airplane from its Everett, Wash., site. The airplane was a 777-200ER (Extended Range) model that was delivered to Korean Air.

The 3,000 airplanes built and delivered from the Boeing Everett factory include 747, 767 and 777 models. The site is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year.

The 3,000th airplane is joining the Korean Air fleet of 123 airplanes, which includes 13 777-200ERs, four 777-300s, 24 747-400s and 21 747-400 Freighters. Korean Air plans to use the new 777 for long-haul business routes to the Americas, Europe and the Middle East. The 3,000th-delivery milestone comes just nine years after the Everett site celebrated its 2,000th delivery--a 747-400 taken by British Airways on 15 May 1998. The plant's 1,000th widebody delivery was a 767-300ER delivered to Scandinavian Airlines on 14 August 1989.