From Travelport:
A monthly average of 10 million air segments are booked through the Travelport system in the Americas - more than the population of New York City.
From IATA:
International passenger expectations for 2014 = 1 264 500 000 = 1.26 billion (not including domestic flights)
Ans 3 - -Last year, the 'world's 10 largest airports had a total of 660 MILLION passengers - and there are still over 50 other airports that handled between 20 -40 million EACH !
Last year (2009), 769.6 million travelers boarded planes in the U.S. or planes bound for the U.S., according to new data from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. That's down 5.3% from 812.3 million passengers in 2008 and down 8.2% from the record 838.2 million air travelers in the U.S. market in 200
Half a million people are flying aomewhere in the world!
At any given point in time, about 3,000 people are in an aircraft in the air. This is true 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
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The number of people that travel by plan a day are 1,500,000 people. The estimated number of flights a day is between 25,000 to 30,000 a day.
No, that's way before the invention of airplanes.
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Very few people take airplanes on a daily basis. The overwhelming majority of the population ride in cars not airplanes. Air travel is limited to long distance travel.
There are millions of people who travel via airplanes during the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States. The Air Transport Association predicts that 16.3 million people will fly during the holiday.
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Airplanes provide faster travel, especially for places that are far away. They made it possible for people to travel to places that are far away faster, and for trade between distant places to be faster and easier.
Travel and or shipping things to other places.
yes, by airplanes, bikes, car, river, and raaillroads
Airplanes were invented because people wanted to fly like birds.
To travel
Airplanes reduce travel time. and they are also a safer way to travel.