WNBA's Storm Take 5-Hour Bus Trip Between Games After Flight Canceled Due to Weather

In a season already full of travel of difficulties, the WNBA had another incident on its hands as the Seattle Storm had a big change in their plans on their way to Washington D.C. from New York following their game against the Liberty on Saturday.

Due to hazardous weather throughout the Northeast, the Storm's flight to the nation's capital Sunday was cancelled with the next possible flight for their 24-person travel party not available until Wednesday, the day after their matchup against the Mystics on Tuesday night, according to a report by the Associated Press.

And with limited spots available on outgoing trains, they ended up settling for a potentially five-hour bus ride south.

It's a tough blow for Seattle given that the flight from New York to Washington typically only lasts about an hour.

It's especially difficult considering how busy of a travel week the organization has had over the past few days. The Storm flew into Boston from Seattle on Tuesday night before driving two hours to Connecticut for a matchup against the Sun on Thursday.

They then made a three-hour drive Friday to the Big Apple ahead of Saturday afternoon's game against the Liberty.

And it's been a fruitless east coast road trip thus far, going 0-2 against the Sun and Liberty.

Luckily, the rest of the Storm's travel week should be a bit easier as they'll have a charter flight to Atlanta on Wednesday as part of their only back-to-back game of the year.

In an effort to improve the league's travel conditions this season, the WNBA decided to institute charter flights for the second half of back-to-back games. Teams are still required to fly commercial for all other fixtures, however, which has drawn plenty of criticism from fans and players alike.

It took a particularly hard beating following an incident in which Phoenix Mercury star Brittney Griner was harassed at the Dallas Airport while catching a commercial flight.

Griner took a moment to criticize the low standards the WNBA had set in terms of travel.

"I'll say this. I think we should have already had the option to use a different airline, a more private airline, charter flights," Griner said a couple of weeks following the Dallas incident, per ESPN's M.A. Voepel. "It's a shame that it had to get to rock bottom, because I feel like waiting for something to happen and then making a change … you don't know what that 'something's' going to be. We've all seen what can happen in this world."

Since then, the league approved a plan that would allow Griner to board charter flights for the rest of the Mercury's road games. The courtesy may also be extended to the rest of the roster.

The WNBA has said it would cost about $2 million per team to charter for the entire season.