How many airplanes fly each day in the world?

Some aviation research websites Quote approx 102465 average number of flights daily. All including small planes, private jets, helicopters etc, it goes to somewhere around 150000 a day. So bottomline is, around a Hundred Thousand Flights per day. read more

According to this blog post which cites a third-party report, on average there are about 100,000 scheduled commercial airline flights per dayworldwide. That's different than the number of airplanes -- since the same plane can fly multiple times in one day -- so the actual number of planes is probably in the 50,000-80,000 range. read more

Drew, Kris has given a good answer but the total of passenger flights each day is now about 60,000. However, you ask how many planes fly each day. That is a much lower figure as many planes do multiple flights during the day. This is especially true of the low-cost airlines. So about 25,000 airliners do around 60,000 flights per day. read more