This is what I saw when my plane was taxing to the runway at CDG:

Airplane mode was on and all other transmissions (except Location), including WiFi, mobile data, NFC and Bluetooth were off. Location was not manually turned on by me, after I enabled Airplane Mode. It remained turned on.

What am I missing? Is GPS now so widely accepted on-board planes that Android changed its configuration to let this kind of signal/communication to pass through Airplane mode "block"?

I believe that this four years old answer isn't a duplicate, because at that time (2014) Location was generally "included" in Airplane mode and was turned off by enabling it.

This is what I saw when my plane was taxing to the runway at CDG:

Airplane mode was on and all other transmissions (except Location), including WiFi, mobile data, NFC and Bluetooth were off. Location was not manually turned on by me, after I enabled Airplane Mode. It remained turned on.

What am I missing? Is GPS now so widely accepted on-board planes that Android changed its configuration to let this kind of signal/communication to pass through Airplane mode "block"?

I believe that this three year old answer isn't a duplicate, because at that time (2016) Location was generally "included" in Airplane mode and was turned off by enabling it.

This is what I saw when my plane was taxing to the runway at CDG:

Airplane mode was on and all other transmissions (except Location), including WiFi, mobile data, NFC and Bluetooth were off.

What am I missing? Is now GPS so widely accepted on-board planes that Android changed its configuration to let this kind of signal  / communication to pass through Airplane mode "block"?

I believe that this four years old answer isn't a duplicate, because at that time (2014) Location was generally "included" in Airplane mode and was turned off by enabling it.

EDIT: Location was not manually turned on by me, after I enabled Airplane Mode. It remained turned on.

This is what I saw when my plane was taxing to the runway at CDG:

Airplane mode was on and all other transmissions (except Location), including WiFi, mobile data, NFC and Bluetooth were off. Location was not manually turned on by me, after I enabled Airplane Mode. It remained turned on.

What am I missing? Is GPS now so widely accepted on-board planes that Android changed its configuration to let this kind of signal/communication to pass through Airplane mode "block"?

I believe that this four years old answer isn't a duplicate, because at that time (2014) Location was generally "included" in Airplane mode and was turned off by enabling it.