1: MCO (Orlando) only.
2: Hong Kong, Cape Town/Joburg, JFK, Japan, Beijing, Athens, Los Angeles, San Francisco...not sure about where the Carribbean flights go from or the Boston/Washington/Chicago and Las Vegas but would guess they're mostly ex-LHR too.
3: friend was on about £7500 basic I recall
4: enough to cover your costs when away from base but not much more.
5: make something up which sounds good, so long as sis-in-law remembers what she wrote at interview ;-)
6: Lots of crew needed - bases dunno, but a lot are split based LGW/LHR
7: no idea - call the paper?
8: only if they get lost/go tech!!
VS will work the crews hard and a lot of them leave after a coupla years due to burn-out, but if she can hang in there the benefits certainly make up for the low basic/flight pay I think. And with the large expansion they have inline the chances of promo are higher than normal.