That was his real income right there, he couldn't stop, though he had to have known they were on him, after the December 2017 seizure, the van was in HIS name. I think he's been flashing that re'up money the whole damn time.
I wonder why he insisted on following the same game plan and thinking offloading at 5 am will make a difference. I've flown planes before so the logistics of transporting drugs on planes is starting to be of curiosity to me.
With the right flight crew they probably wouldn't even have to go through the airport. Off the top of my brain I'd say when you're on approach or somewhere where you are comfortable drop those things out the plane with a chute and a tracking beacon then have people on the ground come and retrieve it.
Meanwhile keep going to the airport. Have identically wrapped items that contain something else in case they question where those things they saw went. Dropping gives you a large area within which you are exiting vs an airport gate