Travel & Places · Emoji 0.6
✈️Airplane Emoji
Generally, the ✈️ emoji just means airplane. It’s used to talk about flying, travel, or anything related to planes.
The ✈️ emoji is an airplane.
- Unicode
- U+2708 U+FE0F
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :airplane:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the ✈️ Airplane emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 6.
People also look for it as aeroplane emoji.
02 — Platforms
Airplane emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+2708. 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 emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :airplane:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the airplane, code point U+2708.
04 — How to type
How to type the ✈️ Airplane emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+2708 when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Airplane 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 emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around airplane 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 with ✈️, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
08 — In conversation
What ✈️ means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the airplane and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
09 — Apps
What ✈️ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+2708, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
11 — Difference
✈️ vs 🛫 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Airplane
Code: U+2708 U+FE0F · added 2010
Shortcode: :airplane:
Generally, the ✈️ emoji just means airplane.
Unicode name: Airplane Departure
Code: U+1F6EB · added 2015
Shortcode: :airplane_departure:
Generally, 🛫 means someone is leaving or starting a journey.
12 — History
Where the ✈️ Airplane emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+2708 U+FE0F 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.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
✈️ existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E662, KDDI au E4B3, SoftBank E01D.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Airplane was approved as U+2708 U+FE0F and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
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.
13 — FAQ