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How many people can an airplane carry? Depends on the aircraft. Some planes such as the 787 and 320 can carry up too 250 passengers, While an Embraer 145 can only hold about 25-45.
How many people fly every day in the world? According to the International Air Transport Association (IATA) in 2010 we had 2,400 million persons flying in 36,800,000 flights around the globe. It gives us a total of 65 pâ¦ersons per flight and thus 6,575,343 persons flying per day. As every flight spends about 3 hours on air (the average), just now, when you are reading this post, there should be around 821,917 persons flying over the skies. 18 people found this useful.