WNBA teams across the league will fly charter to every game for the remainder of the season starting May 21, a WNBA spokesperson confirmed Thursday.
“As the league previously announced, we would be phasing in the program at the start of the season, and can share that beginning May 21 all teams will be flying charter to games,” the spokesperson said in a statement.
Trips between Brooklyn, N.Y., and Uncasville, Conn., and Indianapolis and Chicago will remain as bus rides as planned exceptions due to the proximity between the markets.
News of a full-charter program going into effect next week comes after an uneven rollout of the league’s flight program. As the WNBA began its 28th regular season on Tuesday, multiple franchises were informed, on relatively short notice, that they would be flying charter to their season openers — the Indiana Fever and Minnesota Lynx flew private to Connecticut and Seattle, respectively — while others still traveled commercially.
“Two out of five WNBA teams traveling today are on WNBA charters — and that’s a win. It could be a bigger one if the W allowed teams who were not offered League charters to secure their own until a full 12-team solution is ready,” New York Liberty star forward Breanna Stewart posted on X, while also sharing a…
