Swanson: WNBA travel woes create a competitive disadvantage

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The league maintains charter flights would unfairly benefit some teams, but isn’t playing a sixth game in 10 days on airplane fumes also a disadvantage?

It left members of the team stranded on the other side of the country for the night, deciding whether to get an hour or two of sleep in a hotel room or in the airport.

Everyone was exhausted regardless when the Sparks finally boarded a flight for home early Monday morning, touching down close to 11 a.m., half the day gone. after an exhausting, 24-hour odyssey that would have had them going directly from the airport to their game.to fly all 12 WNBA teams by charter instead of commercially. That’s more than the league can afford, she said.

 

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