This is what I saw when my plane was taxing to the runway at CDG: [![enter image description here][1]][1] [![enter image description here][2]][2] 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](https://android.stackexchange.com/a/151105/20449) 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_. [1]: https://i.sstatic.net/0dUAo.png [2]: https://i.sstatic.net/RzVsV.png