WNBA set to have full-time charter flights for teams beginning this season [Video]

For the first time in league history, the WNBA will have full-time chartered flights for its teams throughout the season.

Commissioner Cathy Engelbert said in a meeting with sports editors that the league will launch a charter program “as soon as we can get planes in places.” 

She said it is projected to cost around $25 million per year for the next two seasons.

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Teams have traveled commercially since its inception in 1997, resulting in player safety concerns.

However, it reached a boiling point last year when Brittney Griner, roughly six months after she was released from Russian prison in a controversial exchange with United States officials, was targeted by “inappropriate and unfortunate” actions of a “social media figure and provocateur” at a Dallas airport.

Griner and other members of the Phoenix Mercury were walking in a Dallas airport when Alex Stein walked beside her and asked why she “hates” and “still want[s] to boycott” America.

Griner said the incident was …