Taylor Swift has taken over Toronto for a six-show Eras Tour run at the Rogers Centre, but there is some evidence that the acclaimed megastar may have skipped town during her off-time between performances.
The pop icon’s private jet was tracked departing Toronto on Sunday, November 17, on a brief 333-mile flight lasting less than an hour between Toronto Pearson International Airport and Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, New Jersey.
Swift’s plane appears to use Morristown — a sleepy town of around 20,000 residents located about 40km west of Manhattan, NY — as a flight hub and has been recorded regularly landing and departing from the town’s small municipal airport.
The flight information was shared by University of Central Florida student Jack Sweeney, who tracks celebrities’ carbon output using publicly available flight information and posts the details on social media.
Sweeney’s X account covering Swift’s private jet flights, @SwiftJetNextDay, shared details of the singer’s Sunday flight out of Toronto the following day.
Flew from Toronto, Ontario, CA to Morristown, New Jersey, US 24 hours ago.
Apx. flt. time 48 Mins. pic.twitter.com/T4tsbjZ0kW— Taylor Swift Jets (Tracking) (@SwiftJetNextDay) November 18, 2024
While blogTO has not independently verified Swift’s presence on the privately-owned 2009 Dassault Falcon 7X, the singer’s carbon contribution is being called into question by Sweeney, noting that the flight burned an estimated 2,079 lbs (943 kg) of jet fuel and released 3 tons of CO2 emissions.
333 mile (289 NM) flight from YYZ to MMU
~ 310 gallons (1,174 liters).
~ 2,079 lbs (943 kg) of jet fuel used.
~ $1,737 cost of fuel.
~ 3 tons of CO2 emissions.— Taylor Swift Jets (Tracking) (@SwiftJetNextDay) November 18, 2024
However, that was not the only flight by Taylor Swift’s private jet on Sunday, with the plane next departing out of Morristown on a roughly 1 hour and 45-minute flight to Nashville that produced almost four metric tons of pollution, burning over 430 gallons of jet fuel.
738 mile (641 NM) flight from MMU to BNA
~ 671 gallons (2,538 liters).
~ 4,494 lbs (2,038 kg) of jet fuel used.
~ $3,755 cost of fuel.
~ 7 tons of CO2 emissions.— Taylor Swift Jets (Tracking) (@SwiftJetNextDay) November 18, 2024
Tracking Swift’s private jet flight activity hasn’t necessarily been a walk in the park for Sweeney.
It was revealed in early 2024 that, last year, Swift’s legal team served Sweeney with a cease and desist that characterized his entirely legal flight tracking as “wrongful and dangerous actions” and accused him of “stalking and harassing behaviour.”
In Sweeney’s defence, Swift is indeed considered among the top polluters in the entertainment industry in terms of private jet use, but as in this case, it can be almost impossible to verify that a celebrity is actually on board their private jet at any given time.
While her jet may have departed Toronto, Swift is set to play three more shows at the Rogers Centre on Nov. 21, 22 and 23.
