Everywhere Taylor Swift’s two private jets went in 2023

Taylor Swift’s two private jets traveled 178,000 miles in 2023, according to an account tracking the singer’s carbon footprint, which – you guessed it – is much larger than the average person’s.

The animated video is making the rounds on social media and shows every spot on Earth where the two private jets belonging to the Bad Blood singer took off and landed last year.

It is based on publicly available data that is regularly posted on the X account @SwiftJetNextDay that tracks the two aircraft owned by Swift.

The singer has previously threatened legal action against Jack Sweeney, a student from Florida who runs the account, for sharing her flight information online.

The clip shows Swift’s jets traveled mostly domestically last year, crisscrossing the United States. Only several international trips were made to the UK, Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina.

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While it is not clear whether Swift or anyone was aboard the planes, the geography of the trips reflects that of her Eras Tour that kicked off with a show in Arizona in March 2023.

The majority of her tour was based in the United States, with the only international dates that year including shows in Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Mexico City.

A study from the UK marketing agency Yard claimed she was “the biggest celebrity CO2 polluter” in 2022, with emissions supposedly being 1,100 times more than the amount of the average person.

According to @SwiftJetNextDay, Swift’s planes emitted about 1,200 tons of CO2 in 2023, or 83 times more than the average American. They made journeys equivalent to seven trips around the world, it claimed.

Swift’s team has been pushing back against this criticism, as the singer appeared to have improved her behavior after receiving negative publicity following the Yard’s publication in July 2022.

The Guardian reported that her flight frequency dropped from 19 times a month between January and August 2022 to just over two a month following backlash.

This year may see her carbon footprint rise again, as Swift embarked on an international leg of the Eras Tour, which has already taken her to far-flung destinations like Australia and Japan. She was also traveling frequently to see her boyfriend, Travis Kelce play football.

When asked, “How do you not have jet lag right now?” after she rushed from Tokyo to Las Vegas to see Kelce play at the Super Bowl earlier this year, Swift responded, “Jet lag is a choice,” which again pulled focus to her flying habits.

Swift’s team insisted that she bought “more than double” the carbon credits needed to offset all her tour travel. Her lawyers also sent a cease-and-desist letter to Sweeney, accusing him of “stalking” and posing “an imminent threat to the safety and wellbeing” of the artist.

Sweeney refused to bow to the pressure and take down the account, claiming via his own lawyer that it is “engaged in protected speech that does not violate any of Ms. Swift’s legal rights.”

Sweeney also tracks the planes owned by other celebrities, including Elon Musk, who accused him of sharing his “assassination coordinates.” The billionaire Tesla owner temporarily banned Sweeney from Twitter after acquiring the platform in 2022.

To address security concerns expressed by Swift and Musk, both accounts now post the flight information of their jets with a 24-hour delay.