It is amazing when you think that 24/7, every moment 50,000 planes are in the air, all over the globe.
That means there are about 500,000 people in the air at any moment!
Many of these flights are cargo planes, so my estimate is conservative...
50,000 X 10 = 500,000.
Other estimates would be higher. I tried to find data on number of passengers, and I found one hat aid the major US airlines have, on average, 120 passengers per flight. I reduced my number for small planes, cargo planes and military aircraft.
Still, we have a city of people airborne at any moment, globally!
found one that had...
Bloody touch screen typing.
16 years wishing Free Republic had an edit function.
We are, via news media, becoming big babies. A free society is vulnerable. Yet we live in the safest place on earth and you’d think planes were falling out of the sky every minute.