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Union's brutal travel schedule could cause headaches on and off the field

If you happened to be in the Philadelphia airport at just the right time on Thursday, you’d probably have seen Union players and staff in the same security line as all the other commercial passengers headed to flights across the country.

Major League Soccer teams rarely take charter flights to road games. The league allows each club a total of four one-way charters each year for regular season contests. So teams almost always fly commercial, which means they’re subjected to the same delays, cancellations and other headaches as the rest of the public.

The odds of the Union coming down with some headaches over the next few days are higher than usual.