airplane departure

= departures

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The airplane departure emoji is the digital equivalent of shouting “wheels up!” and sprinting through the terminal with a latte. It’s used for travel flexes, vacation countdowns, and that triumphant “I’m out” vibe when you’re peacing out of work, drama, or a group chat with too many notifications. People drop it with captions like “catch flights not feelings,” or to signal a fresh start, a big move, or a literal takeoff to better plans. Flip it sarcastic and it becomes the perfect “leaving this convo immediately” reaction—ghost mode with jet engines.
On Apple/iOS, it’s a sleek white-and-silver jet with blue accents, nose pitched up in classic takeoff pose, gliding over a thin gray runway line against a soft sky gradient—very glossy, very “airport commercial.” It pairs nicely with globes, passport stamps, and OOO messages, and appears in memes about red-eye flights, TSA lines, and budget-airline chaos. Flirty usage? “Say the word and I’m on my way” with a single 🛫 says it all. Pop-culture bonus: “wheels up” energy has that action-show flair—cue dramatic sunglasses and boarding music.

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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.

This emoji was one of the "suggested emojis" the Unicode group unveiled in June 2014 [article], however, it has been, and still is, up to the companies who support emoji in their operating systems to provide not only images but also an algorithm to replace the emoji code into the emoji image.

Emoji General Information

Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)	1286 of 2393
Google Android Picture
Google Hangouts Picture	Image not available
Twitter.com Picture	Image not available
LG Emoji Picture	Image not available
Samsung Emoji Picture	Image not available
Phantom Open Emoji Picture	Not created yet
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name	:departure:
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Unicode Category Information

Unicode Category	Transport and Map Symbols
Unicode Range	1F680–1F6FF
Unicode Subcategory	Cat Faces

Emoji Character Encoding Data

Emoji Code Version	iOS 8 - Current
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)	🛫
UTF-8 Character Count	1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)	🛫
Decimal HTML Entity	🛫
Hexadecimal HTML Entity	🛫
Hex Code Point(s)	1f6eb
Formal Unicode Notation	U+1F6EB
Decimal Code Point(s)	128747
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)	0xF0 0x9F 0x9B 0xAB
UTF-8 Hex Bytes	F0 9F 9B AB
UTF-8 Octal Bytes	360 237 233 253
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)	0xD83D 0xDEEB
UTF-16 Hex	d83ddeeb
UTF-16 Dec	55357 57067
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)	0x0001F6EB
UTF-32 Hex	01F6EB
UTF-32 Dec	128747
Python Src	u"\U0001F6EB"
PHP Src	"\xf0\x9f\x9b\xab"
C/C++/Java Src	"\uD83D\uDEEB"