Taylor Swift has a challenging Super Bowl problem. I will explain.
The Kansas City Chiefs are headed to the Super Bowl in Las Vegas. It’s their fourth trip in five years to the big game and, I gotta admit, they deserve it. After running into a bunch of bumps through the regular season, they got hot at exactly the right time. I’m starting to feel about them what I felt about the Patriots.
The NFL loves this, of course, because it means that the Taylor Swift-Travis Kelce thing can play out to a storybook finish. Will the most famous female billionaire singer in history see her tight end (arguably one of the best in league history) win a Super Bowl as part of their romance? And the league loves the amount of money she’s bringing in. According to one report, Tay-Tay’s been responsible for an extra US$331.5 million.
The early line has San Francisco as 2.5 point favourites.
But there’s a big problem. Tay-Tay’s Eras tour resumes on Wednesday, February 7, in Tokyo when she begins a four-night stand at the Tokyo Dome. The lights will go down on the fourth show around 11 pm Saturday local time. That’s 6 am Saturday Las Vegas time.
If Taylor hops on her private jet by midnight Tokyo time (7am Saturday Las Vegas time), she’ll need to make a beeline for Vegas, which is a 13 hour-ish flight, depending on condition. That would have her in Vegas at 1pm Sunday Tokyo time/8 am Vegas time. The Super Bowl will start at 3:30 pm Vegas time on Sunday and 8:30 am TUESDAY in Tokyo.
Assuming her jet lands on time, she can be whisked from the airport to any of the whale hotel suites in half an hour. There’s still time for a nap and some freshening up before the game.
So can will she make it? Probably. Flying private with a nice big bed in the back can do wonders. It’ll be a long work day/travel day, but it’s doable. But then she has to get back on that jet and head to Melbourne for her next show on Friday, February 16, a distance that takes 18 hours.
I don’t know of too many private jets with that kind of range–Taylor has two, the most recent being a Dassault Falcon 900LX which has a maximum range of about 8800 km (which I think is best in class) there will probably have to be a stop in someplace like Hawaii.
If that Melbourne shows starts at 8 pm local time, that’s 1 am Vegas time, meaning that over the course of just a few days, she’ll have to fly though 17 (Tokyo to Las Vegas, 8900 km) + 19 (Las Vegas to Melbourne, 13,000 km) time zones. Again, tough, but doable.
UPDATE: People are betting that she’ll figure it out.
I want a private jet. And I think I got all these calculations correct, but they’re tricky. See?
She always has an option, with her amount of cash, to charter a bigger plane that can get her to Vegas in one leg. It would be a push, but it could be done.