Nothing is ever as it seems especially in the press. You dont really believe what you read.
Maybe the Cannes trip was an empty leg to pick up paying customers and the girls were offered that leg with the proviso that they Easy Jetted back at their own expense?
The Motor racing could have been in company with a spare engine which was being rushed down to a paying racing team.
The worst I ever had was for a large newspaper group who rented a Hawker to take a bunch of people for a Golfing holiday in Spain.
They were annoyed at having golf clubs littering the Hawker and rented another Jet (me) to fly down to bring the Golf clubs back.
Think if that had hit the press :-) With all the carbon footprint stuff (sorry cannot tell you which newspaper or I might get shot at dawn)
Think I could have made a fortune selling that story to a rival group or television.
Pace