A diehard Taylor Swift fan who lives in Prince George, B.C., says a flight cancellation forced her and a group of other Swifties to rent a car and make the near 800-kilometre journey to Vancouver to catch the last dates of the Eras Tour.
Carol Hansson says her flight was originally scheduled for Thursday night, but it kept getting delayed due to apparent safety issues with the aircraft, and alternate flights wouldn’t have got her to Vancouver in time for Friday’s concert.
She says an airport employee told her the cancelled flight’s passengers were “90 per cent Swifties” and other hardcore fans were easy to spot in their merchandise.
Hansson says she got tickets to all three of Swift’s concerts at B.C. Place this weekend, and when the flight was cancelled, she approached other stranded fans and they agreed to rent a car, switching off drivers along the way and …