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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.
A Cessna 172 has 4 seats. It's absolute maximum capacity of passengers is 3, assuming the Pilot is not counted as a passenger. Qantas airlines have 484 passenger seats in their Airbus A380. This does not include 4 seats in the cockpit, the Cabin Crew Jump seats (around 18 of them) and crew rest beds.