Taylor Swift flew 178,000 miles in a year, her defiant plane ‘stalker’ reveals – as he vows to carry on tracking star
TAYLOR Swift’s private jet tracker has revealed he’s heard nothing since the star’s legal team sent a cease and desist letter to stop him “stalking” her online.
Computer student Jack Sweeney has remained defiant and kept on posting the whereabouts of the singer’s two private jets, although she sold one earlier this year.
The 21-year-old has doubled down on releasing flight data, and this month released a YouTube video of all of Taylor’s flights from 2023, which would be enough to fly around the globe seven times.
He hasn’t counted how many there are but was told it’s over 170 flights.
The video concludes with the info that “Swift’s two private jets flew 178,000 miles in 2023 equivalent to flying around the earth 7 times. emitting ~ 1200 tons of C02 in the process. That’s 83 times the average American.”
He added a direct Taylor quote, “Jet lag is a choice.”
It was a comment the star made after flying from Tokyo to Las Vegas to watch boyfriend Travis Kelce win the Super Bowl.
Jack – a junior at the University of Central Florida – has faced unprecedented scrutiny after Taylor, 34, sent a “cease and desist letter” on December 22 claiming that he was assisting stalkers.
“While this may be a game to you, or an avenue that you hope will earn you wealth or fame, it is a life-or-death matter for our Client,” it read.
“Ms Swift has dealt with stalkers and other individuals who wish her harm since she was a teenager… the reality has forced our Client to live her life in a constant state of fear for her personal safety.”
Her spokesman went one step further and said Jack’s dedicated Instagram account to Taylor’s jet had a “connection” to a man being arrested in January outside her townhouse in Manhattan.
Yet, four months on, Jack has heard nothing from Taylor’s lawyers – nor does he believe he ever will.
Taylor’s team was successful in getting Jack’s dedicated Swift Jets Instagram page shut down, and he’s not been able to restart it.
He says it’s just like in 2022 when Elon Musk, who also publicly slammed Jack for tracking his jet on his own platform X, offered $5,000 for him to stop, but Jack refused.
‘INTIMIDATING’
“Nothing [has happened]. No, I’m not really surprised, it’s pretty much like with Elon, you know, they’ll say something to intimidate the smaller person,” he said.
“It’s the attention they’re getting that they don’t like.”
“I like it that it brings awareness,” Jack added.
He says that exposing the amount Taylor used the jet in 2023 – and also having other Instagram accounts dedicated to celebs such as Kylie Jenner and Kim Kardashian – shouldn’t be seen as a “competition.”
In fact, Taylor does not even make the top 10 when it comes to celebrities’ private jet use – the top three are rapper Travis Scott, Kim K, and Musk himself.
Top 10 celebrity polluters
Celebrities with the highest private jet use in 2023:
- Travis Scott 137 flights, 330,145km, 6,061,300kg CO2 emissions
- Kim Kardashian 165 flights, 485,102km, 5,857,600kg CO2 emissions
- Elon Musk 150 flights, 228,717km, 4,564,700kg CO2 emissions
- Beyonce and Jay Z 144 flights, 357,717km, 4,317,800kg CO2 emissions
- Bill Gates 112 flights, 297,664km, 3,771,900kg CO2 emissions
- Steven Spielberg 120 flights, 271,519km, 3,661,800kg CO2 emissions
- Tyler Perry 78 flights, 180,783km, 3,319,100 CO2 emissions
- Leonard Blavatnik 121 flights, 232,126km, 3,130,300kg CO2 emissions
- Kylie Jenner 72 flights, 218,304km, 3,073,100kg CO2 emissions
- Celine Dion 69 flights, 200,893km, 2,826,900kg CO2 emissions
JET GROUNDED?
Nevertheless, it’s an uncanny coincidence that Jack says Taylor’s private jet has barely been used since the story made the headlines in December, preferring to take charter planes so that it’s more difficult for spotters to track.
“There’s so many people, you know, it’s not really a competition, though, for who’s the biggest polluter,” he said.
“The one jet [of Taylor’s] that is used is maybe every couple of weeks now just between Tennessee and California. Since this new year, she’s not always used the jet for tour dates.
Jet lag is a choice.
Taylor Swift
“It could be that reason [of negative publicity], or it could be that the charter jet is nicer, a bit faster, and can go further.”
Jack says that if Taylor continues to hire charters for the European leg of her tour, which kicks off next month, it won’t be difficult to know who it is.
“If it’s just in two locations where it’s Nashville and some European location, how many people are leaving Nashville [for Europe] on a charter?” he explained.
“Most people, even without me, are doing it now, there’s people posting on Reddit.”
He is now working on a video of all of Musk’s flights last year and said the Tesla founder will “probably not” be too pleased when he posts it on X.
The U.S. Sun reached out to reps for Taylor for comment.