EVO 7, Please remember we don't all live and fly in the South of England. For our group a trip to France (even Calais) is a full day's flying in a PFA aircraft. Lunch in Scotland is much quicker and cheaper.
You don't need to have a large disposable income to fly a PFA group aircraft in the North of England. Example prices up here are £8 to £28 per hour (airbourne time) with a well run group (there are plenty) and dozens of airfields to land at with no landing fee.
Yes, if you have money to burn you can hire club aircraft, but we don't all have sufficient disposable income to do that.