Gotta agree with gaffer here. Plus, he asked for his shuttle, then next time we see him i think its safe to assume he's on his star destroyer. We dont need to see him travel there to keep track of him, give yourself and the general audience more credit than that. Its those aspects of the prequals that get me the most, how Lucas has to spell everything out and couldnt let some things just be infered from the context, we dont always need the dialogue to tell us everything. Similar to the Biggs/Tank thing, it was always pretty clear to me that Biggs/Tanks were lukes friends growing up, and thats enough for us to feel luke's pain when Biggs dies. Actually, since we dont see Biggs in the beginning it makes it seem like its been even longer since they have seen each other, which makes biggs' death shortly after their reunion more painful.

-Darth Simon

ps. sorry if i rambled some