The WNBA plans to commit $50 million over the next two years to provide full-time charter flight service for its teams during the season.
by TERESA M. WALKER | AP Sports WriterFILE -New York Liberty basketball player Sabrina Ionescu, center, waits to go through the security line with the team's manager of basketball operations Micaela Reese behind her at Bradley Airport in Hartford, Conn., Wednesday, June 25, 2023. The wait for full-time charter flights for WNBA teams finally is over with commissioner Cathy Engelbert announcing the leagueâs plans to start the program this season, Tuesday, May 7, 2024. .
“All these players and these faces are becoming so popular that it really is about that as much as it as about recovery,” Collier said, noting how last season Brittney Griner was harassed by what the WNBA called a “provocateur” while traveling commercial. “We’ve had moments in the league," Reeve said, calling the current momentum a tsunami. "But this is clearly a movement. And if you think it’s not, you’re going to get left behind.”
Flights have been an ongoing issue for the WNBA that only increased last year when the league began working with the Phoenix Mercury and Griner after the All-Star center's 10-month detainment in Russia.That forced players like Breanna Stewart, the 6-foot-4 forward for the New York Liberty, to squeeze past fellow travelers on commercial flights to fit into her assigned window seat.
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