No doubt '10% Carlos' (if he hasn't yet retired) will have done his usual excellent job of sorting out some hotel rooms etc.? He once put me in the presidential suite of the Hotel Nasce Agua - "Special room for Commandante!" as he put it.
I can't help wondering quite what sort of a 'fuel anomaly' would have caused the whole trail to divert? While the F-35B does have rather short legs, there are few abort aerodromes available on the southern route. Trailing 3 x Jags from Lajes to Halifax often wasn't quite doable if the tanker went single hose, so a decision had to be made as to the need to use 2 tankers in cell or risk going single hose.