The airplane emoji is your digital boarding pass for anything travel-y: wheels up, OOO flex, and that “catch flights, not feelings” energy. People drop it when they’re bragging about a getaway, dashing to a red-eye, or dramatically leaving the group chat like, “I’m out, see ya at 30,000 feet.” It doubles as a punchline for airport life—TSA lines, middle-seat tragedies, and overhead-bin chaos—or for the classic meme vibe of budget airline drama and mysterious fees. It also flies in for sarcasm: when a joke totally flew over someone’s head, a lone ✈️ says it all.
On Apple/iOS, it looks like a sleek white-and-silver passenger jet angled up and to the right, with crisp blue accents on the wings and tail, a tidy row of tiny windows, and glossy 3D shading that screams ready for takeoff. No contrails, no runway—just a clean, dynamic perspective that feels mid-lift-off. It’s the go-to for travel captions next to a globe, palm tree, suitcase, or passport, and it pairs well with “wheels up” or a humblebrag itinerary drop. Flirtatiously, it can read as “I’ll fly you out,” and dramatically, it’s the universal “leaving this convo immediately.” Bonus: don’t confuse it with the small airplane or the arrival/departure emojis when you’re trying to look like a seasoned flyer, not a rookie navigator.
Definition
An airplane is used to transport people or items quickly from one spot on earth to another. The fastest and safest mode of transportation. Boeing, Airbus, Bombardier and McDonnell Douglas make the vast majority of the commercial aircrafts flown by airlines around the world. Some of the largest airlines are American Airlines (AA), Delta Air, United Airlines, Southwest Airlines, and Lufthansa.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji was part of the proprietary / non-standardized emoji set first introduced by Japanese carriers like Softbank. These emojis became part of the Apple iPhone starting in iOS 2.2 as an unlockable feature on handsets sold in English speaking countries.
In iOS 5 / OSX 10.7, the underlying code that the Apple OS generates for this emoji was changed.
The code generated for this emoji was changed slightly in iOS 7 / OSX 10.9 (a variation selector was added) advising the OS to display character emoji style instead of black and white text when available. We don't mind Apple, thank you! We just love our emojis! [Sources 11438-emoji-var.pdf 13.7 Variation Selectors (unicode.org)]
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
376 of 2393
Apple/iOS Picture
Google Android Picture
Google Hangouts Picture
Twitter.com Picture
LG Emoji Picture
Samsung Emoji Picture
Phantom Open Emoji Picture
Not created yet
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name
:airplane:
Keywords
Airplane, Plane, Airport, Travel, Airlines, Fly, Jet, Jumbo, Boeing, Airbus
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Dingbats
Unicode Range
2700–27BF
Unicode Subcategory
Miscellaneous
Editorial Comment
Take me a ride on a jet plane I just might!
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Activities/work/entertainment
Unicode Subcategory
Vehicles
Names & Annotations
AIRPLANE = ARIB-9122
Symbol Information
✈ U+2708 unified (Unicode 1.1)
Proposal Identifier
e-7E9
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
#37 'Airplane' 飛行機 U+E662 SJIS-F8C3 JIS-756C
KDDI
#168 飛行機 U+E4B3 SJIS-F68C JIS-756C
Softbank
#212 #old29 飛行機 U+E01D SJIS-F95D
Emoji Character Encoding Data
Emoji Code Version
iOS 4 Code
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)
e01d
Formal Unicode Notation
U+E01D
Decimal Code Point(s)
57373
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xEE 0x80 0x9D
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
EE 80 9D
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
356 200 235
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xE01D
UTF-16 Hex
e01d
UTF-16 Dec
57373
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0000E01D
UTF-32 Hex
E01D
UTF-32 Dec
57373
Python Src
u"\uE01D"
PHP Src
"\xee\x80\x9d"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uE01D"
Emoji Code Version
iOS 5 Code
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)
2708
Formal Unicode Notation
U+2708
Decimal Code Point(s)
9992
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xE2 0x9C 0x88
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
E2 9C 88
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
342 234 210
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0x2708
UTF-16 Hex
2708
UTF-16 Dec
9992
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x00002708
UTF-32 Hex
2708
UTF-32 Dec
9992
Python Src
u"\u2708"
PHP Src
"\xe2\x9c\x88"
C/C++/Java Src
"\u2708"
Emoji Code Version
iOS 7 - Current
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)
✈️
UTF-8 Character Count
2
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)
✈️
Decimal HTML Entity
✈ ️
Hexadecimal HTML Entity
✈ ️
Hex Code Point(s)
2708, fe0f
Formal Unicode Notation
U+2708, U+FE0F
Decimal Code Point(s)
9992, 65039
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xE2 0x9C 0x88, 0xEF 0xB8 0x8F
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
E2 9C 88, EF B8 8F
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
342 234 210, 357 270 217
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0x2708, 0xFE0F
UTF-16 Hex
2708, fe0f
UTF-16 Dec
9992, 65039
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x00002708 0x0000FE0F
UTF-32 Hex
2708, FE0F
UTF-32 Dec
9992, 65039
Python Src
u"\u2708\uFE0F"
PHP Src
"\xe2\x9c\x88\xef\xb8\x8f"
C/C++/Java Src
"\u2708\uFE0F"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
