The emoji in question, which has the formal name "airplane arrival," was introduced in 2014 and was included in the first-ever universal emoji release, Emoji 1.0, in 2015, according to Emojipedia.

Another commenter, meanwhile, suggested that the emoji was simply meant to symbolize a flight’s arrival and asked DFW if they were guilty of using the same symbols in their arrivals areas.

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