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NFL star Travis Kelce arrived Thursday in Australia, where his girlfriend Taylor Swift will perform a series of sold-out concerts as part of the international leg of his record-breaking Eras tour.
Aerial footage provided to NBC News by Channel Seven Australia showed the Kansas City Chiefs player exiting a Bombardier private jet and entering a van in Sydney, where Swift will perform the first of four concerts in the city on Friday.
Kelce’s teammate Ross Travis, who is traveling with him, also shared a photo of the Australian coast from inside the plane on Instagram. (The Australian media, which covered his arrival live, initially had difficulty telling the two players apart.)
Swift and Kelce, both 34, have been flying back and forth across the world to support each other in their hot careers. Immediately after the last of four concerts in Tokyo on February 10, Swift flew to Las Vegas for the next day’s Super Bowl, which the Chiefs won for the third time in five years.
She then returned to Asia-Pacific for three shows from February 16 to 18 in Melbourne, Australia, where Swift performed to a crowd of 96,000 fans in what she said was her largest concert ever.
In November, Kelce traveled to Argentina to see the pop idol at one of his concerts in Buenos Aires.
The Eras Tour, the first concert tour to cross the billion-dollar mark, is credited with boosting local economies as the shows attract fans from near and far. Swift’s concerts in Australia this month coincided with a “Swiftposium” academic conference in Melbourne for academics to discuss the economic and other implications of its popularity.
An Eras Tour concert film, released in theaters around the world in October, was also the highest-grossing domestic concert film in history within days of its release in the United States and Canada.
Swift’s last concerts in Asia will be March 2-9 in Singapore, where government officials said this week they had given Swift a grant to support her six shows in the city-state, the only place she performs in the Southeast Asian. They did not disclose the amount, citing commercial confidentiality, but noted the “significant benefits to the Singapore economy” that her concerts were likely to bring.