Airplane mode on. iMessage sent as text message

I believe that this is a drastic oversight by Apple, that I noticed as recently as 1 year ago.
When I travel abroad, I turn Airplane mode on, which SHOULD disable any cellular network/service no matter what. I turn on WiFi so that I can still use iMessage. BUT when the iMessage recipient is unable to receive a message (for whatever reason), the message is sent as a text message and I get charged for an international text message by my cell carrier (ATT).
I realize that I can fix this by turning off the "Send as SMS" option in the Messages preferences, but this should not matter! Airplane mode is on, which should mean that I am safe from cell carrier charges, no matter what. This is not the case!!!

What's odd though is I have several contacts where this happens.  One other thing I don't understand though is let's say the iPhone wants to send it as a text but i send it from the computer where it can only iMessage.  If my friend can't get iMessages at that time will my iMessage from the computer eventually get delivered?
It seems once my iPhone starts sending iMessages as texts to certain contacts it takes it a while to revert back.  If I were to turn off the send as SMS option and iMessage wern't available would it eventually go thru?

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