air travel

[kopend]

how many people ar in the air at any one time
by the way i am only asking because my friend said it is about 4 million and this sounds like a lot to me

[ThisSpace]

Could possibly be correct, that figure. I learnt a while ago that the world's most popular aircraft is the Boeing 737; one of which takes off about every 10 seconds around the globe. Easyjet and Ryanair use them.

Say around 1000 of those are airboune at any one time, each with a capacity of 200 people (give or take), that's 200,000 people you have in the sky already.

That's just with one aircraft type. If you take into account the rest of the Boeing family and Airbuses alone, you would probably get over half your figure.

Four million becomes more likely when you consider all the other, smaller aircraft manufacturers like Beech, British Aerospace and Fokker, flying more short haul routes etc.

[sponsmith]

I asked this question a few weeks ago on here.
I had heard that the figure was around 3 million.
Wouldn't be suprised if 3-4 million wasn't far off.

[Zabka]

I just read book 'Fit to Fly'.. it's basically everything about flying and on page 4 it says:
There are over 40000 flights per day around the world and at any one time there are some 13 million passengers in the air.