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.

A catering hi-loader box raised level with the open galley door of a wide-body, its platform bridged to the doorway.
475
Documented stations
58
Countries covered
4,900 m
Longest runway

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.

Algeria
35Published stations
3,806 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Algeria
Angola
22Published stations
4,000 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Angola
Benin
1Published stations
2,410 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Benin
Botswana
7Published stations
4,000 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Botswana
Burkina Faso
2Published stations
3,300 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Burkina Faso
Burundi
2Published stations
3,600 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Burundi
Cameroon
10Published stations
3,400 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Cameroon
Cape Verde
6Published stations
3,280 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Cape Verde
Central African Republic
2Published stations
2,600 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Central African Republic
Chad
4Published stations
2,800 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Chad
Comoros
3Published stations
2,900 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Comoros
Côte d'Ivoire
7Published stations
3,300 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Côte d'Ivoire
Democratic Republic of the Congo
20Published stations
4,000 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Democratic Republic of the Congo
Djibouti
1Published stations
3,150 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Djibouti
Egypt
20Published stations
4,015 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Egypt
Equatorial Guinea
4Published stations
3,310 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
3Published stations
3,515 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Eritrea
Eswatini
2Published stations
3,600 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Eswatini
Ethiopia
16Published stations
3,800 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Ethiopia
Gabon
11Published stations
3,080 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Gabon
Gambia
1Published stations
3,600 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Gambia
Ghana
5Published stations
3,403 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Ghana
Guinea
1Published stations
3,300 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
1Published stations
3,200 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Guinea-Bissau
Kenya
16Published stations
4,117 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Kenya
Lesotho
1Published stations
3,200 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Lesotho
Liberia
3Published stations
3,353 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Liberia
Libya
9Published stations
3,660 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Libya
Madagascar
23Published stations
3,100 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Madagascar
Malawi
4Published stations
3,540 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Malawi
Mali
5Published stations
3,200 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Mali
Mauritania
4Published stations
3,400 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Mauritania
Mauritius
2Published stations
3,370 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Mauritius
Mayotte
1Published stations
1,929 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Mayotte
Morocco
19Published stations
3,720 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Morocco
Mozambique
13Published stations
3,660 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Mozambique
Namibia
12Published stations
4,575 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Namibia
Niger
5Published stations
3,000 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Niger
Nigeria
26Published stations
3,900 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Nigeria
Republic of the Congo
6Published stations
3,300 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Republic of the Congo
Réunion
2Published stations
3,200 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Réunion
Rwanda
3Published stations
3,500 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Rwanda
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
2Published stations
3,054 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
São Tomé and Principe
2Published stations
2,220 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in São Tomé and Principe
Senegal
10Published stations
3,500 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Senegal
Seychelles
2Published stations
2,987 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Seychelles
Sierra Leone
4Published stations
3,200 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Sierra Leone
Somalia
5Published stations
4,140 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Somalia
South Africa
53Published stations
4,900 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in South Africa
South Sudan
3Published stations
3,100 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in South Sudan
Sudan
8Published stations
4,019 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Sudan
Tanzania
12Published stations
3,600 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Tanzania
Togo
2Published stations
3,001 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Togo
Tunisia
10Published stations
3,300 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Tunisia
Uganda
4Published stations
3,658 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Uganda
Western Sahara (disputed territory)
3Published stations
3,000 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Western Sahara (disputed territory)
Zambia
7Published stations
3,962 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Zambia
A catering hi-loader raised to the aft galley door of a wide-body on stand, its platform level with the doorway and a second truck waiting below.

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

HACCP
HACCP cold chain
Produced in our own certified kitchens, temperature logged end to end.
Clearance
Cleared personnel
Security-cleared staff, badged airside vehicles, escorted where the stand requires it.
Custody
Sealed chain of custody
Carts sealed at the kitchen, seals verified and handovers signed at the aircraft.
Allergens
Documented allergen sets
Allergen, halal, kosher and medical requirements documented per uplift and per passenger.

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.

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State and Diplomatic Flight Catering
Government flight catering across these jurisdictions runs on cleared staff, sealed loads and one named coordinator per movement. Protocol is held from the production kitchen to the galley door, with chain of custody documented at every handover.
Government & state flights →
Royal vvip food.
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Royal and VVIP Movements, Continent-Wide
Royal flight catering carries household dietary requirements leg to leg across African stations, with a kitchen brigade briefed ahead of each movement. Service is built to the household standard, not adapted from a standard tray.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Wide-Body Charter and Group Movements
Charter flight catering for wide-body charter, ACMI and wet-lease operators covers group movements and special missions with a full three-cabin uplift. Loads are staged in the order each galley is laid out, ready to board on arrival.
Wide-body charter →
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Scheduled Airline Catering Across the Continent
Carriers running African fields as outstations draw on scheduled airline catering services and ad hoc uplifts alike, including diversions, technical stops and AOG. Flight crew, cabin crew and cargo crew meals are built to the same tray sets across every stand.
Commercial airlines →
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Private Jet and Business Aviation Support
Private jet catering across Africa is handled by our dedicated business aviation branch, delivered to FBOs and GA terminals on the same cold chain and the same paperwork as an airline uplift, standard held constant across cabin sizes.
Private jets →

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.

The countries of Africa we document, compared on the hard data that decides whether a wide-body can be loaded.
WherePublished stationsLongest runwayVIP / gov terminalAerodrome code
Algeria353,806 m0 of 35narrow-body · wide-body
Angola224,000 m0 of 22narrow-body · wide-body
Benin12,410 m0 of 1narrow-body
Botswana74,000 m0 of 7narrow-body · wide-body
Burkina Faso23,300 m0 of 2wide-body
Burundi23,600 m0 of 2narrow-body · wide-body
Cameroon103,400 m0 of 10narrow-body · wide-body
Cape Verde63,280 m0 of 6narrow-body · wide-body
Central African Republic22,600 m0 of 2narrow-body · wide-body
Chad42,800 m0 of 4narrow-body · wide-body
Comoros32,900 m0 of 3narrow-body · wide-body
Côte d'Ivoire73,300 m0 of 7narrow-body · wide-body
Democratic Republic of the Congo204,000 m0 of 20narrow-body · wide-body
Djibouti13,150 m0 of 1wide-body
Egypt204,015 m0 of 20narrow-body · wide-body
Equatorial Guinea43,310 m0 of 4wide-body
Eritrea33,515 m0 of 3wide-body
Eswatini23,600 m0 of 2wide-body
Ethiopia163,800 m0 of 16narrow-body · wide-body
Gabon113,080 m0 of 11narrow-body · wide-body
Gambia13,600 m0 of 1wide-body
Ghana53,403 m0 of 5narrow-body · wide-body
Guinea13,300 m0 of 1wide-body
Guinea-Bissau13,200 m0 of 1wide-body
Kenya164,117 m0 of 16narrow-body · wide-body
Lesotho13,200 m0 of 1wide-body
Liberia33,353 m0 of 3narrow-body · wide-body
Libya93,660 m0 of 9narrow-body · wide-body
Madagascar233,100 m0 of 23narrow-body · wide-body
Malawi43,540 m0 of 4narrow-body · wide-body
Mali53,200 m0 of 5narrow-body · wide-body
Mauritania43,400 m0 of 4narrow-body · wide-body
Mauritius23,370 m0 of 2narrow-body · wide-body
Mayotte11,929 m0 of 1narrow-body
Morocco193,720 m0 of 19narrow-body · wide-body
Mozambique133,660 m0 of 13narrow-body · wide-body
Namibia124,575 m0 of 12narrow-body · wide-body
Niger53,000 m0 of 5narrow-body · wide-body
Nigeria263,900 m0 of 26narrow-body · wide-body
Republic of the Congo63,300 m0 of 6narrow-body · wide-body
Réunion23,200 m0 of 2narrow-body · wide-body
Rwanda33,500 m0 of 3narrow-body · wide-body
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha23,054 m0 of 2narrow-body · wide-body
São Tomé and Principe22,220 m0 of 2narrow-body
Senegal103,500 m0 of 10narrow-body · wide-body
Seychelles22,987 m0 of 2narrow-body · wide-body
Sierra Leone43,200 m0 of 4narrow-body · wide-body
Somalia54,140 m0 of 5narrow-body · wide-body
South Africa534,900 m0 of 53narrow-body · wide-body
South Sudan33,100 m0 of 3narrow-body · wide-body
Sudan84,019 m0 of 8wide-body
Tanzania123,600 m0 of 12narrow-body · wide-body
Togo23,001 m0 of 2wide-body
Tunisia103,300 m0 of 10narrow-body · wide-body
Uganda43,658 m0 of 4narrow-body · wide-body
Western Sahara (disputed territory)33,000 m0 of 3wide-body
Zambia73,962 m0 of 7narrow-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.

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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.

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