On the subject of what being a pax on AV8 is like, take a look at:
http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthr...hreadid=113543
And on the question of fuel stops, they're at Palma, not Las Palmas. We stopped there in both directions - on the way out via Dublin I understand all of them stop at Palma because the Dublin runway's not long enough for a 767 max weight t/o. On the way back we were told it was due to headwinds. Temp on t/o from Cape Town was 35 so we may have been weight-limited but the runway there's 3200m and at sea level so this must happen a lot.
Were we IR8? Yes we were!