I always wondered why I had to buy a round-trip ticket for a one-way flight! Now I know. In today's WaPo article, as in SF Chron, we read
The idea of bringing Cheney to Carline's camp came from Scalia, who suggested that Carline invite the vice president after Scalia, during a December 2002 visit to Carline's hunting camp "learned" that Carline was a Cheney "admirer". Scalia himself conveyed Carline's invitation to Cheney a few month's later, and Cheney accepted--offering Scalia a ride to Louisiana aboard his official Gulfstream jet, according to Scalia's account.
However, Scalia wrote, this was done merely for convenience, and he did not benefit financially from the use of Cheney's jet, since he and his son and son-in-law, ended up buying round-trip commercial tickets to secure a return flight.
Damn! It's so easy to turn a favor into no-favor!