Taylor Swift’s private jet has arrived at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas as the pop star is expected to attend Super Bowl LVIII to cheer on her boyfriend, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce.
Swift’s private jet touched down at Harry Reid International Airport hours before kickoff.
After weeks of speculation, the NFL confirmed Swift will be attending Super Bowl LVIII shortly after her private jet touched down in Las Vegas on Sunday afternoon.
Swift’s arrival was also confirmed by Jack Sweeney, the Florida college student that runs an account tracking the pop star’s private jet flights who was recently threatened with legal action by Swift’s team.
According to the account, which collects and reposts public data from the Federal Aviation Administration, Swift’s jet left Hollywood Burbank Airport for a 34 minute flight to Las Vegas, a trip that cost $1,215 in jet fuel and released two tons of carbon dioxide emissions.
Swift played a concert in Tokyo, Japan only one day before the big game, requiring her to make a marathon 12-hour trip from Japan to California the night before.
The NFL called Swift and Kelce’s romance “one of the most unexpected storylines of the 2023 season,” and that storyline has translated to a huge boost in ratings for the league over the course of the 2023-2024 season. When Swift attended the Chiefs’ game on September 24, 24.3 million people tuned in to watch the pop star cheer on Kelce from a box with his family. About one week later, Swift attended another game, breaking her viewership record again when an average of 27 million viewers tuned in, NBC News reported.
Taylor Swift had a banner year in 2023, which saw her Eras Tour become the most profitable tour in history, grossing over $1 billion in revenue.
Sweeney, a college student at the University of Central Florida, runs bot accounts on various social media platforms that track the private jets of various famous figures, including Mark Cuban and Elon Musk, who has also clashed with the 21-year-old in the past. In December, Sweeney received a cease-and-desist letter from Swift’s lawyers, the Washington Post first reported, accusing him of “stalking and harassing behavior” for tracking her jet. Swift has frequently faced stalking from fans in the past, most recently after a 33-year-old man was arrested outside her Manhattan home in January.
