Used either as a literal airplane, to represent an overseas vacation, or sometimes as a proxy for airplane mode on a phone or tablet.
Use of this emoji declined in April 2020, potentially as a result of global air travel limitations.
Airplane was approved as part of Unicode 1.1 in 1993 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
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U+FE0F
✈️ Airplane
✈️ Variation selector-16