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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.
Best Answer: There are at least 49,315 per day. According to dated stats from 2000, ...the world's commercial jet airlines carried approximately 1.09 billion people on 18 million flights [that year]... That divides out to over 49,000 per day and being 2009, it's probably more.