This is how powerful Taylor Swift is. She has bumped the blown door on the Alaska Airlines flight right off the front pages of the newspapers and the lead story on the news TV stations as well.
The biggest question in aviation right now is whether or not the singer will make it from Tokyo, where she opened another leg of her extraordinarily popular tour, to fly back to Las Vegas on Sunday to see her boyfriend, Travis Kelce, and the Kansas City Chiefs play in the Super Bowl.
She probably will, but it won’t be commercially. Swift will have to utilize her private jet.
While a large commercial long-haul jet might seem quicker, it is estimated that it is a 13-hour flight, not to mention that there is no direct route from Tokyo to Las Vegas. She would have to switch planes in San Francisco or Los Angeles to make it to the Super Bowl as well as go through customs in a time-consuming process.
Swift will still have to go through customs, of course, but between that and a layover in flying commercially, it will add almost two hours to the flight when time is precious. Ah, the plight of the world’s biggest pop star and Time Magazine’s Person of the Year.
Not to worry, Swifties.
Swift will use a Dassault Falcon 7X. It has a range of 5,950 miles and can cover the 5,500-mile trip without stopping. None of those pesky layovers for her.
Even at a top speed of 562 mph, however, the journey will still take almost 10 hours.
But how many times do you get to see your boyfriend play in the Super Bowl?
NFL fans will be wondering how many times CBS will show her on-screen too during the broadcast.
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