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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.
On Southwest passengers are broken up into three groups â A, B, and C â and each passenger is given a number in that range, typically from 1 to 60. The plane is boarded in order of your priority, meaning that A1 boards first, and C60 boards last (assuming there are passengers with those numbers). So while other airlines have zones, Southwest literally has an exact order in which people board. So first Southwest lines up the people with âAâ boarding passes, and you stand in groups of five. 30 people from each zone stand on the left, and 30 on the right, and then the monitors change when they are ready to board the next group.