Airline & VIP flight catering — Africa
Airline, VIP Flight and Private Jet Catering Across Africa
Airline catering across Africa is built on ramp access: our teams board wide-body aircraft directly by hi-loader rather than handing meals off at the foot of the stand. That same crew moves between inflight catering and VIP flight catering without changing process, jurisdiction to jurisdiction.

Airline Catering Stations Across Africa
Each country page below sets out the stations we serve across Africa, with their codes, runway data and stand capacity, so an ops desk can confirm reach before booking a leg.

On the apron — Africa
One Uplift Standard From Ramp Access to Cabin Door
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
How Aviation Catering Runs Across Africa
Aviation catering across Africa answers to two kinds of traffic on the same apron: scheduled airline rotations working these fields as outstations, and state, charter or business movements that arrive without warning and need a full uplift inside a tight turnaround. Airline catering companies operating here plan around both at once.
A request reaches the ops desk as a flight number, a stand and a pax count, and it is turned into a loaded galley without the aircraft ever leaving the ramp: the hi-loader takes the uplift to the door, not to a curb beside it. Cold chain is held from the production kitchen through to boarding, and paperwork travels with the load so a handling agent or a protocol officer can check it against the manifest on arrival.
Seasonal patterns shift traffic between hubs and secondary fields across the continent, and airport catering has to flex with them: a station built for weekday narrow-body turns one week can carry a wide-body charter the next. Country pages below name the stations, their codes and their hard figures, so a broker can match a routing to a kitchen before committing a leg.
Compliance
The Same Standard on Every African Apron
Five Kinds of Flying, One Airline Catering Operation
Across Africa the same kitchens and the same hi-loader crews serve five distinct kinds of flying, from scheduled airline catering through VIP flight catering to charter flight catering, without a change of supplier or a second point of contact.





Compare Airline Catering Stations Across Africa
Use the table to weigh which field takes a wide-body aircraft, which boards by hi-loader straight to galley height, and which sits closest to a production kitchen, before committing a routing.
| Where | Published stations | Longest runway | VIP / gov terminal | Aerodrome code |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Algeria | 35 | 3,806 m | 0 of 35 | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Angola | 22 | 4,000 m | 0 of 22 | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Benin | 1 | 2,410 m | 0 of 1 | narrow-body |
| Botswana | 7 | 4,000 m | 0 of 7 | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Burkina Faso | 2 | 3,300 m | 0 of 2 | wide-body |
| Burundi | 2 | 3,600 m | 0 of 2 | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Cameroon | 10 | 3,400 m | 0 of 10 | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Cape Verde | 6 | 3,280 m | 0 of 6 | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Central African Republic | 2 | 2,600 m | 0 of 2 | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Chad | 4 | 2,800 m | 0 of 4 | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Comoros | 3 | 2,900 m | 0 of 3 | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Côte d'Ivoire | 7 | 3,300 m | 0 of 7 | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | 20 | 4,000 m | 0 of 20 | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Djibouti | 1 | 3,150 m | 0 of 1 | wide-body |
| Egypt | 20 | 4,015 m | 0 of 20 | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Equatorial Guinea | 4 | 3,310 m | 0 of 4 | wide-body |
| Eritrea | 3 | 3,515 m | 0 of 3 | wide-body |
| Eswatini | 2 | 3,600 m | 0 of 2 | wide-body |
| Ethiopia | 16 | 3,800 m | 0 of 16 | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Gabon | 11 | 3,080 m | 0 of 11 | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Gambia | 1 | 3,600 m | 0 of 1 | wide-body |
| Ghana | 5 | 3,403 m | 0 of 5 | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Guinea | 1 | 3,300 m | 0 of 1 | wide-body |
| Guinea-Bissau | 1 | 3,200 m | 0 of 1 | wide-body |
| Kenya | 16 | 4,117 m | 0 of 16 | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Lesotho | 1 | 3,200 m | 0 of 1 | wide-body |
| Liberia | 3 | 3,353 m | 0 of 3 | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Libya | 9 | 3,660 m | 0 of 9 | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Madagascar | 23 | 3,100 m | 0 of 23 | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Malawi | 4 | 3,540 m | 0 of 4 | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Mali | 5 | 3,200 m | 0 of 5 | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Mauritania | 4 | 3,400 m | 0 of 4 | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Mauritius | 2 | 3,370 m | 0 of 2 | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Mayotte | 1 | 1,929 m | 0 of 1 | narrow-body |
| Morocco | 19 | 3,720 m | 0 of 19 | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Mozambique | 13 | 3,660 m | 0 of 13 | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Namibia | 12 | 4,575 m | 0 of 12 | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Niger | 5 | 3,000 m | 0 of 5 | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Nigeria | 26 | 3,900 m | 0 of 26 | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Republic of the Congo | 6 | 3,300 m | 0 of 6 | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Réunion | 2 | 3,200 m | 0 of 2 | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Rwanda | 3 | 3,500 m | 0 of 3 | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha | 2 | 3,054 m | 0 of 2 | narrow-body · wide-body |
| São Tomé and Principe | 2 | 2,220 m | 0 of 2 | narrow-body |
| Senegal | 10 | 3,500 m | 0 of 10 | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Seychelles | 2 | 2,987 m | 0 of 2 | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Sierra Leone | 4 | 3,200 m | 0 of 4 | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Somalia | 5 | 4,140 m | 0 of 5 | narrow-body · wide-body |
| South Africa | 53 | 4,900 m | 0 of 53 | narrow-body · wide-body |
| South Sudan | 3 | 3,100 m | 0 of 3 | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Sudan | 8 | 4,019 m | 0 of 8 | wide-body |
| Tanzania | 12 | 3,600 m | 0 of 12 | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Togo | 2 | 3,001 m | 0 of 2 | wide-body |
| Tunisia | 10 | 3,300 m | 0 of 10 | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Uganda | 4 | 3,658 m | 0 of 4 | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Western Sahara (disputed territory) | 3 | 3,000 m | 0 of 3 | wide-body |
| Zambia | 7 | 3,962 m | 0 of 7 | narrow-body · wide-body |
Placing an Order Across African Stations
Send flight number, ETA, stand, aircraft type and pax and crew count per cabin, with any special meal codes, to the ops desk for the station in question. Our teams turn that into an uplift plan and confirm the load against your manifest before boarding. For last minute airline catering, the same information moves the request straight to the kitchen assigned to your stand. Submit a quote request to open a channel with the desk covering your routing across Africa.
Africa Catering Questions Answered
What Ops Desks Ask About African Stations
Ask operations directly →Do you load directly onto the aircraft or deliver to the stand?
Our teams board by hi-loader directly onto the aircraft door at every station we serve. We do not hand off at the foot of the stand.
Can one supplier cover a multi-leg itinerary across several African countries?
Yes. A single point of contact coordinates the uplift plan across every station on the routing, so the handover between jurisdictions does not fall on the operator.
Do you handle both scheduled airline turns and irregular operations?
Both run through the same ops desk. Diversions, technical stops and AOG uplifts are worked alongside scheduled rotations without a separate process.
How is a government or royal movement kept separate from routine traffic?
Cleared staff, sealed loads and a single named coordinator handle the movement from kitchen to galley door, with chain of custody documented at each handover.
Can private jet catering be added to the same booking as an airline turnaround?
Yes. Our private jet branch delivers to FBOs and GA terminals on the same cold chain and paperwork as an airline uplift at the same station.
Request Airline Catering Across Africa
Tell Us the Wide-Body Uplift You Need
One ops desk covers the whole route in Africa. Give us the aircraft and what you need loaded, and a coordinator comes back with a quote.
orders@aerogourmet.com · operations desk, 24/7