Try Airplane emoji
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Meaning & usage
What does the Airplane emoji mean?
A plane in flight, for travel and trips.
Upbeat and on the move. It means travel, a trip about to start or a holiday under way.
How to use ✈️ naturally
Holidays, travel bios and highlight covers.
Object emoji usually point to an activity or topic rather than an emotion. They work well as labels in lists, captions and announcements, where the image makes the subject easy to scan.
From standard to slang
The history of ✈️
- 2010
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Airplane was first defined as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. That label is retrospective: Unicode applied it later to the early mobile core it inherited from the Japanese carriers.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
An aircraft drawn from above on some platforms and in profile on others. It began as a text dingbat, so it needs a variation selector to appear in colour.
- Today
How its use evolved
Holidays, travel bios and highlight covers.
Dates follow Unicode’s official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.
In conversation
Examples of ✈️ in messages
These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.
Off to Rome in the morning ✈️
Landed, finally ✈️
Flights are booked ✈️
When to use it
Using ✈️ clearly
Holidays, travel bios and highlight covers. It lands as airplane emoji or travel emoji when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding — so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.
Common questions
About the airplane emoji
What does ✈️ mean in a text message?
A plane in flight, for travel and trips. Upbeat and on the move. It means travel, a trip about to start or a holiday under way.
Is ✈️ always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are airplane emoji, travel emoji, plane emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does ✈️ look different on another device?
U+2708 U+FE0F identifies the emoji; the picture is a font, drawn separately by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. Only the artwork changes, never the character.
How do I copy and paste the airplane emoji?
Use the copy button at the top of this page. ✈️ is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.
When was the airplane emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records ✈️ as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. Early emoji version numbers can be retrospective, so this date describes its place in the standardised emoji set rather than the first-ever appearance of the underlying symbol.
For developers
✈️ in code
Every value below is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the emoji directly.
| Format | Value | When to use it | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+2708 U+FE0F | The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec. | |
| HTML (hex) | ✈️ | For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8. | |
| HTML (decimal) | ✈️ | The same reference in decimal. Both render identically. | |
| CSS | \2708 \FE0F | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{2708}\u{FE0F} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %E2%9C%88%EF%B8%8F | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
Reference card
Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+2708 U+FE0F
- Category
- Objects & Tech
- Also known as
- airplane emojitravel emojiplane emoji
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