BP, got that, thanks for your time. What struck me aout this article was there were no pax, just the flight deck crew which is why I queried the Air Stewards role, it also led me to (perhaps mistakenly) believe that the AS was part of the standard crew complement for tanking only sorties. The trail in this case appears to have included a roulement of the tanker asset, presumably with no en route stops from the way the article was written.