Ever for the reason that Kansas Metropolis Chiefs clinched a spot within the Tremendous Bowl in Las Vegas, there’s been no scarcity of chatter in regards to the journey plans of 1 Taylor Swift. It’s because she has been within the stands (or the non-public suite, at the least) at many Chiefs video games this season in help of star tight finish Travis Kelce.
Given her attendance all through the season, it is pure to imagine she’d need to be in particular person to help him on the greatest soccer recreation of the 12 months in lower than two weeks in Las Vegas. However there is a problem.
Swift has a live performance in Tokyo the night time earlier than the afternoon Tremendous Bowl kickoff in Las Vegas. Add that dedication to the 12 hours or so of flying time required between Tokyo and Las Vegas, and people hoping to see Swift cheering Kelce on from the stands could begin to fear that it is not doable.
It is truly very doable, although. In reality, with the fitting planning, even a fan with no non-public airplane may pull it off. Here is how the logistics map out.
Is it doable to attend Taylor Swift’s live performance in Tokyo and the Tremendous Bowl?
Logistically talking, it is fully doable to make be at each. You can even get a good night time’s sleep on the resort after the live performance, have breakfast in Tokyo, fly to Vegas and have just a few hours to sightsee or prep — all earlier than kickoff.
Let’s set the scene: Swift performs on the Tokyo Dome at 6 p.m. native time in Tokyo on Saturday, Feb. 10.
If you consider time zones, that is 1 a.m. Las Vegas time on Feb. 10, as Tokyo is 17 hours forward of the Pacific time zone.
The Tremendous Bowl kicks off at 3:30 p.m. PST the subsequent day on Sunday, Feb. 11.
How one can fly from Tokyo to Vegas for the Tremendous Bowl
Swift could have entry to a airplane of her personal. Nonetheless, for the remainder of us to make it from Swift’s Tokyo live performance to Vegas for the Tremendous Bowl, we would even have a handful of flight choices.
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Here is your greatest: You’d depart at 1:05 p.m. Tokyo time on Sunday, Feb. 11, the day after the live performance, from Haneda Airport (HND) aboard American Airways.
You’d fly over the Pacific Ocean and cross the Worldwide Dateline, which suggests you’d expertise a time travel-esque phenomenon widespread with transpacific flights: You’d arrive at 6 a.m. PST Sunday, Feb. 11 (sure, the identical date) at Los Angeles Worldwide Airport (LAX).
From there, you’d have a two-hour layover to get better at LAX earlier than a brief, 78-minute second leg to Harry Reid Worldwide Airport (LAS) in Las Vegas. You’ll contact down at 9:18 a.m. PST — nonetheless six hours earlier than the Tremendous Bowl begins.
An financial system ticket goes for $721, one-way.
You’ll be able to e book that very same Tokyo-to-Vegas itinerary on American for 35,000 AAdvantage miles, one-way in financial system.
Or maybe better of all, for simply 10,000 miles extra (45,000 whole), you possibly can fly premium financial system. This provides a form of hybrid expertise between enterprise class and coach — extra spacious seats in addition to probably higher meals and facilities at a a lot decrease value than enterprise class.
American has just a few different itineraries that might get you into Vegas in time for the large recreation.
United Airways does, too.
For instance, you can depart Tokyo’s Narita Airport (NRT) at 5:55 p.m. native time Sunday. You’d arrive in LA at 10:50 a.m. PST Sunday. After a two-hour layover, you’d get into Vegas at 2:12 p.m. — precisely 78 minutes earlier than kickoff.
You’d pay $649 for a coach ticket or 55,000 Mileage Plus miles on a few totally different itinerary choices.
Backside line
In fact, we solely highlighted the flights from Tokyo to Vegas within the above examples to see if you happen to could be “swift” sufficient to get from a live performance on one aspect of the globe to a soccer recreation on the opposite aspect of the world the next afternoon. To get to Swift’s live performance on the Tokyo Dome within the first place, seek the advice of TPG’s information to attending to Japan utilizing factors and miles.
As for the sport itself — to not point out the live performance — be warned: You could nicely find yourself paying extra to attend these iconic occasions than you will pay for all of your different journey bills mixed.
However, strictly taking a look at air journey, you can completely make it to each the Taylor Swift live performance in Tokyo on Feb. 10 and the Tremendous Bowl in Las Vegas on Feb. 11 — with out the companies of a personal airplane or perhaps a time-traveling DeLorean.
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