Canberra booked a charter plane to ensure players return home quickly after Friday's match.
Canberra have ramped up their premiership preparations by booking a charter plane so they can leave Mudgee straight after Friday night's clash with the Panthers to ensure their players are asleep in their own beds by midnight.
The Raiders have already done their fair share of travelling this season - they played in Las Vegas, Townsville, Darwin and the Gold Coast in the opening seven rounds - and club officials did not want players completing a five-hour bus trip home on Friday night.
Another alternative was to take a commercial flight, but any trip to and from the state's central west would have involved a stop-over in Sydney.