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WNBA Alters Charter Flight Policy After Right-Wing Harassment

Previously, teams were only able to charter flights for postseason games and back-to-back games on consecutive days.

The WNBA will allow teams to charter their own flights, the league announced Thursday—a move that comes just days after a far-right provocateur harassed Phoenix Mercury star Brittney Griner at the Dallas-Fort Worth airport. Starting this season, WNBA teams will be allowed to use a service called JSX to book private flights. Previously, rules stipulated they were only able to book such trips for postseason games and back-to-back games on consecutive days. The league was under increasing pressure to alter its charter flight policy following the incident with Griner, who was recently released in a prisoner swap after spending much of 2022 in Russian jails.