Is Taylor Swift's wedding to Travis Kelce causing damage to the planet?

Taylor Swift's wedding prep is racking up more than just guest lists and venue rumours; it's racking up some serious carbon emissions, too. As speculation builds around her rumoured marriage to Travis Kelce, new flight-tracking data has put hard numbers on just how much her private jet has been in the air over the past three months.

The figures are striking even by celebrity-aviation standards, and given how closely Swift's travel habits have been tracked online for years, it's no surprise the new numbers are already making the rounds and reigniting a debate that's followed her for a long time now.

Taylor Swift's private jet has burned 60,000+ gallons of fuel since March — Here's the math

According to tracking service JetSpy, Swift's Dassault Falcon 7X has completed 81 flights and logged 169 hours in the air since returning to service on March 2, after a nine-month maintenance overhaul.

In that stretch, under three months, the jet burned through 60,560 gallons of fuel, producing roughly 580 metric tons of carbon emissions and costing an estimated $363,360 in fuel alone. To put that fuel total in perspective, that's enough to fill an average car's tank well over 3,000 times.

For context, the same aircraft flew 98 flights and logged 225 hours across the entirety of 2024, back when the Eras Tour was still in full swing, and her travel schedule was about as packed as it gets.

This short window, not even three months, has already come close to matching a full year of touring-era flight activity, which gives a sense of just how busy the jet has been lately.

The jet is suddenly back in the spotlight because of the wedding

The timing lines up with growing wedding chatter: one insider previously told the Daily Mail that Swift and Kelce are planning a July 3 ceremony at Madison Square Garden, which would explain the sudden uptick in cross-country trips. The jet itself recently went through a roughly $15 million refurbishment, returning with a new paint job and registration number, reportedly for added privacy, though that hasn't stopped flight trackers and fans from keeping close tabs on it regardless.

Swift's team has pushed back on the emissions narrative before, with a spokesperson previously saying she "regularly loans" the aircraft to Kelce and family members, and that it's "blatantly incorrect" to pin all of its flights on her directly. Whatever the breakdown of who's actually on board for each individual flight, the data on the plane itself isn't in question, and as wedding season approaches, that flight log isn't likely to get any shorter anytime soon.