NEW YORK — The wait for full-time charter flights for teams finally is over with commissioner Cathy Engelbert announcing the league's plans to start the program this season.
"We intend to fund a full-time charter for this season,” Engelbert said Tuesday in a meeting with sports editors.Engelbert said the program will cost the league around $25 million per year for the next two seasons.at its draft last month plans to once again pay for charter flights for the entire playoffs as well as for back-to-back games during the upcoming season that require air travel.
Engelbert said before the WNBA draft that the league needs to be in the right financial position to charter planes., who helped the NCAA reach its best viewership in history for women’s basketball, with nearly 19 million fans watching the title game, along with Angel Reese who went to the Met Gala on Monday night and Cameron Brink.