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Airplane emoji

✈️, 🛫 and 🛬: the plane emoji for trips, flights and “I’m away”. Copy them here.

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What the airplane emoji means

✈️ (airplane) is travel: holidays, business trips, “boarding now”, out-of-office messages. 🛫 (airplane departure) and 🛬 (airplane arrival) let you say which end of the flight you are at. 🧳 is the luggage and 🌍 the destination. ✈️ is a text-style symbol with a variation selector, so it can render as a plain outline in some apps; 🛫 and 🛬 are dedicated emoji.

Unicode name: airplane · U+2708 U+FE0F · Emoji 0.6 (original set) · group: Travel & Places.

IN A MESSAGEboarding, see you on the other side 🛫

How people use it

  • Trips: ✈️🌍
  • Departure / arrival: 🛫 🛬
  • Out of office: “away until the 12th ✈️”
  • Airport posts: ✈️🧳☕

Compare the options

EmojiNameUse it forWatch out for
airplaneU+2708 U+FE0FAirplane, travelMay render plain
airplane departure / airplane arrivalU+1F6EB · U+1F6ECTake-off, landingDedicated emoji
luggageU+1F9F3LuggagePacking
globe showing Europe-AfricaU+1F30DDestinationSee the earth emoji guide

Chat examples

Real messages with ✈️, and a reply that fits.

  1. boarding ✈️

    safe flight!

  2. 🛫 off to Rome

    jealous

  3. 🧳 packed

    🛬 see you soon

Questions people ask

What is the difference between ✈️ and 🛫?

✈️ is the generic plane; 🛫 is a plane taking off and 🛬 landing.

Why is my airplane emoji black and white?

✈️ is a text-style symbol; without the variation selector some apps draw it plain.

About this guide

Written and maintained by the Emoji Directory editorial team, without ads or sponsorship. Meanings describe how the emoji is commonly used in public posts and messages, not an official definition. Names, code points, versions, keywords and translations come from the Unicode Emoji 18.0 and CLDR data; shortcodes from the gemoji project. Last reviewed . Spotted a mistake or a new usage? Tell us, or read how the directory is made.

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