The ride all the way from San Angels to Lake City was to take more than a few hours but luckily for John and his whole crew, then had gone to the city in a private flight. If they hadn't done that, and had proceeded to go via the road, then they could have taken a whole day just to get to the capital city.
Lake City's major airport was less crowded by the time they arrived the city. And the last thing John needed was a lot of crowd, thereby giving out his presence. Through the lesscrowdedness, itt was easy for them to go through the place without their presence being made known of. The only downside of it all was that they had to make quick steps to get to the cars waiting for them at the entrance of the airport.