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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.
Jet Blue and Southwest have about 500-100 a day, and most of the others have around 1500-2000. To think there are like 20 thousand flights a day in the United States, and maybe we get 1 crash every 3 or 4 years.. for some reason people still think airlines are dangerous. lol. iceman Â· 8 years ago.