planeload

[pleyn-lohd]

noun

1. the amount of people or cargo an airplane can carry.

Example Sentences

The planeload of migrants deported from the US to El Salvador is scheduled to arrive in Maiquetía, Venezuela later on Friday.

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These will remain in place "until the first planeload of Columbian deportees is successfully returned", the White House said.

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A planeload of migrants that left Texas arrived in northern Illinois early on Sunday said Rockford government officials.

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A planeload of World Health Organization supplies has landed at Egypt’s el-Arish airport and is destined for Gaza when humanitarian access across the border is possible, the U.N. said Saturday.

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A day earlier, the International Committee of the Red Cross flew in a planeload of medical supplies to bring some relief to hospitals overwhelmed by the mayhem.

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