When the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs beat the Baltimore Ravens final Sunday (Jan 28) to advance to the Tremendous Bowl, the query on followers’ minds rapidly turned: Will Taylor Swift be capable to attend to help her companion, the Chiefs tight finish Travis Kelce, if she has a live performance in Tokyo the day earlier than?
It appears everyone seems to be banking on Swift making it throughout the Pacific after her live performance on Feb 10 to cheer Kelce on in Las Vegas on Feb 11: Even American Airways and United Airways took discover.
However can she do it? And what does her jet-set way of life appear to be for the subsequent two weeks?
FEB 4
Taylor Swift will seemingly head to this Sunday’s Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, the place she is up for six trophies. These embrace three for Anti-Hero (file of the yr, music of the yr, and finest pop solo efficiency), two for her album Midnights (album of the yr and finest pop vocal album), and one for her collaboration with the rapper Ice Spice on Karma (finest pop duo/group efficiency), making her some of the nominated artistes of the night. If Swift wins album of the yr, she is going to break the file for many wins within the prime class, with 4.
FROM LA TO TOKYO
Swift’s record-breaking Eras Tour, the primary to gross over US$1 billion, kicks off once more in 2024 in Tokyo, the place she is going to carry out for 4 nights. The journey time is an estimated 12 hours, over 8,690 kilometres, flying throughout 9 time zones and crossing the worldwide date line. Swift flies personal, so passing by way of customs and safety will seemingly be a lot quicker than business journey.
A LONG JOURNEY
Flying from California to Japan’s capital metropolis, Swift will lose 17 hours. Which means if she had been to go away Los Angeles on the morning of Monday, Feb 5 – say, round 9 am – it will be round 2 am in Tokyo on Feb 6. She ought to seemingly arrive round 2 pm in Tokyo.
FEB 7 TO 10
Swift performs on the 55,000-capacity Tokyo Dome. There aren’t any introduced openers, and the present is scheduled to begin at 6 pm, sometimes working for 3 hours and quarter-hour – which implies it may finish round 9.15 pm. A Tokyo Dome spokesman instructed the AP all events should cease utilizing the sound system at 9.30pm. That does not imply everybody should go away by 9.30pm, however the live performance have to be over.
FROM TOKYO TO LAS VEGAS
Tokyo is 17 hours forward of Las Vegas. If Swift leaves Tokyo at midnight after her final Tokyo live performance, that’s 7 am on Saturday in Las Vegas. A mean flight from Tokyo to LA is about 10 hours. If she will fly on to Las Vegas with out refuelling, that’s 11 or 12 hours. There aren’t any direct business flights from Tokyo to Las Vegas, so that is an train in personal aviation. Barring delays, she could be on observe to get to Las Vegas the night time earlier than the sport.
FEB 11
The San Francisco 49ers face off in opposition to the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs at 3.30pm in Las Vegas. Airways, by the way in which, have taken discover and adjusted flight numbers to replicate Kelce and Swift’s relationship. Each Kelce and Swift had been born in 1989 – additionally the identify of one among her albums. American’s Flight 1989 is scheduled to run twice from Kansas Metropolis, Missouri, to Las Vegas on Feb 9 and 10.
FROM LAS VEGAS TO MELBOURNE
On Friday, Feb 16, Swift kicks off her Australian tour in Melbourne with three back-to-back dates on the Melbourne Cricket Grounds, with Sabrina Carpenter as her opening act. If she chooses to fly straight to Australia after the Tremendous Bowl for rehearsals from Vegas, that’s at the least a 17-hour journey – or 16 hours if flying direct from Los Angeles – and greater than 13,000 kilometres of air journey.
TOTAL
With all this in thoughts, Swift can have travelled greater than 30,500 kilometres in just below two weeks, not together with transportation to and from venues, lodges, the airport and any journey that happens between the Tremendous Bowl and her Melbourne tour dates. For reference, the circumference of Earth is 40,000 kilometres.