How would Michael find trusted driver and pilot in foreign Havana? I reckon they were run-of-the-mill hired hands
I''m guessing that he had Tom arrange the driver and the plane. I'm reasonably sure he was in constant touch with Tom.
It would be hugely out of character as discussed uncharacteristic and implausible he was hanging around without so much as a single bodyguard.
I think that coming with only a personal bodyguard was part of his plan to make Roth "relax" by thinking Michael felt reasonably safe in Roth's territory and didn't suspect that Roth was going to have him killed. Then why bring a bodyguard at all, you may ask. Because not bringing any personal security would make Michael look uncharacteristically stupid by not being at all concerned with personal safety. And, by not bringing Neri and/or Rocco, he was signaling Roth that he hadn't ruled them out as possible conspirators in the Tahoe shooting.
Why he was being ultra-careful by going, very visibly, to the Presidential party? Everyone knows he is not going to personally murder! '
Yes, he was being ultra-careful to distance himself from Buscetta's deed and to create an alibi for Roth's killing, "just in case."
It is nice, fun to flesh out the different opinions, interpretations, speculations, knowledge of the Forum members, in the spirit of the Board Why we are still going!
That's it in a nutshell!
