Inflight catering — airline, state, royal & charter

Airline Catering for Commercial, VVIP & Charter Flights

Ramp access and hi-loader boarding put an uplift through the galley door of a wide-body. Airlines, state and royal flight departments and charter operators order from one ops desk, 24/7.

A catering hi-loader raised to the forward galley door of an aircraft on stand, its platform level with the doorway.
400+
Passengers per uplift
Three
Cabins on one aircraft
3,000+
Airports on network
Hi-loader
Ramp-access boarding

Inflight catering at wide-body volume, boarded at galley height

In-flight catering and aircraft catering name one unit of work here: a single movement, a single airframe, and everything that goes on board it. Government flight catering for departments moving ministers and delegations under protocol. Royal flight catering for households whose specification is kept on file. Charter flight catering and ACMI catering for operators whose route is re-cut at short notice. That is VIP flight catering execution carried at airline volume — and yes, we cater private jets too. Crew meals and special meals board on the same uplift, to the codes and formats set out under Capabilities.

A plated main course finished on white china, set on the pass beside folded linen for a First cabin service.

Network

Global airline catering, one station file at a time

Airport catering is settled locally: by ramp procedure, by stand, by the hours an uplift can be worked.

Airline catering worldwide is what the group network makes routine: the ops desk prices a movement from documented facts, at a station your rotation is using for the first time.

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3,000+Airports on network
7Regions on the network
24/7Operations desk
Group network

Five metres from apron to galley door

A wide-body galley door sits about five metres above the apron.

Ramp access, hi-loader boarding, one consignment through the door

We do not deliver to the aircraft steps. We board at galley height with a hi-loader, under badged airside access to the stand, and the uplift goes on as one consignment against one loading sheet.

A catering hi-loader docked at the forward door of an aircraft on stand, a second catering truck waiting alongside on the apron.

From eight passengers to four hundred

One kitchen, one cold chain, one written specification

A plated First service for eight and a three-cabin uplift for four hundred differ in count, in nothing else.

A plated fish course on white china, garnished with crisp vegetable strips and finished with a sauce trail.

8 passengers, First

Plated to specification. Caviar, à-la-carte and household dietary protocols on request.

A hi-loader platform raised to door height under the wing of an aircraft on stand, seen from the apron.

400 passengers, three cabins

A complete aircraft provisioned on one uplift, one cold chain, one turnaround window.

Five operations, one standard

Each of the five arrives with its own vocabulary, its own paperwork and its own idea of short notice.

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Airline Catering
Carriers flying where they hold no flight kitchen: ad hoc rotations, thin outstations, diversions, fuel stops and grounded airframes.
Airline catering →
02
Government & State
State flight operations, ministerial legs and accredited delegations, worked under protocol. Security-cleared personnel, a documented chain of custody, halal sourced under certificate.
Government & state →
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Royal & VVIP
Households moving on VVIP-configured wide-bodies, provisioned against a specification kept on file rather than rebuilt each departure.
Royal & VVIP →
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Charter & ACMI
Charter airlines, ACMI and wet-lease operators, tour desks, pilgrim and sports charters.
Charter & ACMI →
05
Private Jets
The kitchens, the cold chain and the ramp access behind a four-hundred-passenger uplift sit behind a twelve-seat order too.
Private jets →

Coverage

3,000+ airports on the group network

Search the network by city, IATA or ICAO from the top of this page. Runway and stand capacity, ramp access procedures and loading windows are documented station by station.

Four operator types, four volume profiles

Mission type, airframe and passenger count

No names, no nations, no dates — discretion is written into the specification, not added to it as a courtesy.

A segregated stand worked under protocol.
Government & state operators
State flight operations, diplomatic missions and official delegations, flown under protocol with security-cleared personnel and a documented chain of custody.
From a single VVIP cabin to a full delegation aircraft — up to 400 passengers on one uplift.
A VVIP-configured cabin laid for a single place.
Royal households
VIP aviation catering for household travel on VVIP-configured wide-bodies, against standing dietary protocols that hold from one departure to the next.
An eight-seat First cabin, plus the staff and security complement on the same uplift.
Two doors worked at once on a group rotation.
Charter & tour operators
Group and round-the-world programmes on A340, 767, 777 and 787, coordinated leg by leg from one desk.
Up to 400 passengers per leg, across every leg of the itinerary.
A galley loaded for three cabins on one turnaround.
Scheduled & charter airlines
Regular wide-body rotations provisioned across three cabins to one written specification.
350 main-cabin trays with full Business and First, on a single on-time turnaround.

HACCP records, clearances and the loading sheet

Every uplift leaves a paper trail: temperature logs, clearance records, a sealed cart and a signature at the galley door.

Compliance
Compliance & clearances
HACCP cold chain, temperature logged. Security-cleared personnel, badged ramp access. Sealed carts, documented handovers.
Operators
What operators tell us
Three cabins, 380 passengers, one 90-minute turnaround. Nothing left to chase.
Working together
How we work with you
A 24/7 operations desk, one point of contact per itinerary, and menu changes absorbed late in the window.

Aero Gourmet

Give us the airframe, the counts and the window

An operations coordinator comes back with a quote, not a brochure.

Wide-body uplift, any airport