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A new video reveals exactly where Taylor Swift's private jets went in 2023.
While many of us hop on a plane maybe a couple times a year for vacation, or more if you took advantage of some insane airline deals, one pop superstar was basically living in the sky in 2023.
Of course, celebrities enjoy their luxurious perks like fancy cars and private aircraft, but a new video exposes just how extensively Taylor Swift used her two private jets, and the numbers are staggering.
A video posted on YouTube by account Ground Control, shows exactly how much the country-pop icon travelled in 2023.
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If you remember, 2023 was pretty iconic for Swift's Eras Tour, which spanned 149 shows in 51 cities across five continents.
The Eras Tour marked the singer-songwriter's sixth concert tour and her second all-stadium tour. It kicked off in Glendale, Arizona on 17 March 2023, and wrapped up in Vancouver, British Columbia on 8 December 2024.
The tour became the highest-grossing tour in history and the first to exceed both $1 billion and $2 billion in revenue. But the amount of airtime Swift racked up is mind-boggling.
The video, which was also shared on Reddit by Early_Negotiation142, maps the flight paths of her private jets, crisscrossing the United States over the course of a year. By the end of the footage, the travel lines look like an enormous, chaotic scribble.
It starts off at the end of Jan 2023 and continues through December of the same year, when the Eras Tour was in full swing.
According to the video, Swift's jets accumulated 178,000 miles, which is equivalent to travelling around the Earth seven times. In the process, she generated 1,200 tonnes of CO2 emissions, which is 83 times higher than the average American's annual carbon footprint.
Of course, these worrying stats aren't encouraging as our planet edges closer to its brink of collapse from global warming.
Some commenters were shocked at the astronomical mileage Swift racked up.
"Celebrities like her create a bigger carbon footprint in just one year than ordinary people who would need multiple lifetimes to match," one user wrote.
"So charge her a carbon tax of $1 billion or something. See if it still happens then," another suggested.
"Absolute madness," a third user commented.
Swift currently owns a Dassault Falcon 7X which has a top speed of Mach 0.90 (just under 700 mph).
According to Paramount Business Jets, the aircraft is complete with a fully customisable interior, luxurious seating, a 'private stateroom and a gourmet galley'. Swift’s jet is estimated to have cost her around $54 million.
