Airplane Emoji

Travel

A silhouette of a fixed-wing aircraft, typically shown in profile facing left. It represents a commercial airliner in flight, stripped of complex details to remain readable at small sizes.

Usage Context

Widely used to discuss travel, vacations, business trips, or to announce a departure or arrival. It is a staple for indicating long-distance transit and is frequently paired with location-based emojis like 🌍 or travel-themed icons like 🧳.

History

This icon has been a part of character sets since the early days of computing, long before the modern emoji era. Its design is rooted in the early 1990s Wingdings font family, which was widely adopted by Microsoft to provide quick visual shorthand for airline services in digital scheduling and travel itineraries.

Details

Glyph

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Unicode

U+2708

Shortcode

:emoji_u2708:

HTML Entity

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Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category Travel

Subcategory transport-air

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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