🛫

Airplane Departure Emoji 🛫

Angled upward, wheels lifting clean off the runway — this is the plane mid-takeoff, not mid-flight. It's the 'wheels up' emoji — heading to the airport, boarding a flight, or just announcing that a trip is officially starting and there's no turning back from it now at all.

What 🛫 means

A right-facing airplane with a blue, black, and white body, taking off from the visible runway road beneath. The 🛫 Airplane Departure emoji represents a flight taking off to undertake the journey ahead. It signifies leaving a particular place and heading towards another.

How and when to use it

If you're texting someone about your flight departure timings or you're sharing a social media post/story about it, you can use 🛫. Like, "I'll be taking off by 6 in the morning 🛫".
The same applies even while sharing pictures just before your take-off or even during the take-off (like shooting a video of a flight taking off - one that you're not in, of course).
🛫 can also be used in the contexts of airport checkout.
Apart from the literal departure, 🛫 could also be used in a goofy sense of leaving something or even someone. For instance, "Okay, not interested in what's happening here. Byeee 🛫", or "I couldn't take her bullshit anymore. And here I am 🛫 flyin' high, flyin' free".
Use 🛫 while texting someone goodbye or have a safe flight.

Other Names

🛫 Take Off
🛫 Departure
🛫 Departing
🛫 Leaving
🛫 Taking Off
🛫 Airport Check-Out

The lowdown

Category: Travel & Places › transport-air
Codepoints: U+1F6EB
Emoji version: Emoji 1.0
Shortcodes: :flight_departure: GitHub:airplane_departure: Slack · Discord
Keywords: aeroplane, airplane, check-in, departure, departures, plane

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.