FARNBOROUGH, July 16, 2008 (AFP) - US aircraft giant Boeing said Wednesday it had received an order from Malaysia Airlines for 35 medium-range 737-800, with a value of more than 2.6 billion dollars.

Boeing said at the Farnborough Air Show that the order was already been noted on its website, but that the identity of the carrier involved had not previously been revealed.

Delivery of the aircraft will start in September 2010, the Malaysian national carrier's finance director Tengku Azmil Zahruddin told a press conference.