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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.
Since the U.S. has 30,000 flights per day and the amount of passengers on each flight has no bearing on how many planes are in the air, so forget that number.....yet dividing 30,000 by 24(hours) gives you an average amount of planes each hour, which can be divided by 60(minutes) giving you how many planes are in the sky on average per minute.