Travel & Places · Emoji 1.0
🛫Airplane Departure Emoji
Generally, 🛫 means someone is leaving or starting a journey. It’s a quick way to say “I’m going” or “Let’s go.”
The 🛫 emoji is an airplane showing off its takeoff roll.
- Unicode
- U+1F6EB
- Released
- 2015
- Shortcode
- :airplane_
departure: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🛫 Airplane Departure emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 6 of them.
People also look for it as check emoji.
02 — Platforms
Airplane Departure emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F6EB. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Airplane Departure emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :airplane_departure:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F6EB.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🛫 Airplane Departure emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Airplane Departure emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
06 — Combinations
Airplane Departure emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around airplane departure for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
07 — In conversation
What 🛫 means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the airplane departure and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
08 — Apps
What 🛫 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F6EB, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
10 — Difference
🛫 vs ✈️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Airplane Departure
Code: U+1F6EB · added 2015
Shortcode: :airplane_departure:
Generally, 🛫 means someone is leaving or starting a journey.
Unicode name: Airplane
Code: U+2708 U+FE0F · added 2010
Shortcode: :airplane:
Generally, the ✈️ emoji just means airplane.
11 — History
Where the 🛫 Airplane Departure emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+1F6EB never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Airplane Departure was approved as U+1F6EB and shipped in Emoji 1.0 (2015). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🛫 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
12 — FAQ