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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.
The Boeing 737 is the most common jet airplane in the world. For our example here Iâm going to use one type of Boeing 737, the 737-700. A full 737-700, including 180 passengers (and I assume .5 checked bags and one carry-on per passenger), can fly 4,300 miles (New York to Phoenix roundtrip) on 6,900 gallons of fuel.