Flying England’s girls in economy class to the World Cup in New Zealand has been described as a “difficult choice” by the Rugby Football Union.
The Red Roses are favourites to win the title and start their journey, which is able to take nearly 30 hours, on Friday.
England’s males travelled enterprise class to the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan.
The RFU mentioned that as a result of the ladies’s aspect is loss making, “now we have to make difficult selections round what we are able to spend money on”.
England’s journey begins on Friday they usually arrive in New Zealand on Sunday lunchtime, with gentle coaching presently deliberate two days later earlier than full coaching on Thursday.
The Red Roses are the primary aspect on the earth, set a document of 25 consecutive Test wins earlier in September and play their opening World Cup match towards Fiji on 8 October.
England have been the primary girls’s XVs aspect to be provided full-time contracts in 2019.
The RFU mentioned it was “pleased with the progress we have made”, including that workforce administration determined to spend money on “further physios, efficiency coaches, a nutritionist and a full-time psychologist… quite than flying in enterprise”.
The choice comes after England captain Sarah Hunter defended the halving of the side’s match fees for World Cup warm-up video games.
In 2018, airline British Airways introduced that it will fly the England males’s and ladies’s groups to their respective World Cups. as a part of its partnership with the RFU.
However, that was earlier than New Zealand was named because the host of the ladies’s event and the RFU mentioned it had chosen to use “an alternate provider” as a result of British Airways “doesn’t presently fly instantly” to the nation.
It is known that Red Roses gamers have been requested not to publish about their flight on social media, with the explanation on condition that the chosen airline will not be an official accomplice of England Rugby.
In July, England’s males flew enterprise class to Australia with British Airways for his or her summer time tour.
