planeload

[ pleyn-lohd ]

noun

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

Example Sentences

That’s massive revenue, a lot more than a few planeloads of tourists could ever provide.

From Freakonomics

Earlier this week, I watched a planeload of newly arrived soldiers standing in lines outside the in-processing building.

From The Daily Beast

From day one of the presidential campaign in February 2007, it could command a large planeload of reporters and cameras.

From The Daily Beast

We'll have a planeload of geophysicists down here in a few days to get all the scientific data possible out of this event.

From Project Gutenberg