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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — Preguiça, Cape Verde
Airline catering, VIP and private jet catering at Preguiça (GVSN / SNE)
SNE (IATA) · GVSN (ICAO)
The single narrow-body-rated runway at Preguiça sets a fixed rotation pattern, and inflight catering here is planned against that pattern rather than against open apron space. Our kitchen boards through hi-loader access to galley height, a wide-body-style uplift discipline applied to every rotation, so in-flight catering reaches the aircraft sealed, timed and signed for.
1,400 m
Longest runway
Narrow-body
Largest aircraft handled
1
Runways
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VIP at any volume
8 First covers or 400 passengers across three cabins, same execution
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24/7 order desk
Ad hoc, AOG and same-day uplift answered around the clock
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Multi-leg coordination
One loading sheet, every leg of your rotation
On the apron — Preguiça
Aviation catering with ramp access at Preguiça airport
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Inflight catering order window for SNE departures
Aviation catering from sealed cart to galley door at GVSN / SNE
Loading a wide-body-style rotation at Preguiça begins the moment the cart is sealed at our kitchen, not when it reaches the apron. Ramp access is held under our own clearance rather than shared with a general handling queue, which keeps the catering uplift moving on a fixed order of galley doors. Every stage between the seal and the signature is logged, so the loading window at SNE is a measured sequence rather than an estimate quoted in advance.
Between our kitchen and the stand at Preguiça sit screening, an escort through the ramp, and the ordinary traffic of a single-runway apron; we plan the catering uplift against the worst of those three rather than the best case. The galley catering that leaves our kitchen is sealed before the convoy moves and stays sealed until the cart is opened at the galley door, keeping chain of custody intact from cart to cabin. Temperature is logged at sealing and logged again at handover, and the sheet that records both is signed by the crew that carried it.
One coordinator, one sealed cart, one signature: the load is accountable end to end.
Cargo crew meals and passenger uplifts for GVSN
Airline food supplier crews cleared for Preguiça
Airport catering at GVSN runs from a single production line built to serve a narrow-body-rated field rather than a wide-body hub, and that scale is deliberate: every batch produced is sized to the rotation it boards. Hot production, pastry, a cold larder and a protocol cell sit under one roof, so airport catering at Preguiça does not depend on a chain of separate suppliers passing trays between them. The flight kitchen at SNE runs to HACCP standard on every batch, whatever the cabin or the mission it is produced for.
The team that handles government flight catering at Preguiça is the same named crew on every rotation, not a rotating roster drawn from general staff. Each member holds a current security clearance, sits on the access list for the ramp, and is trained to the household standards a protocol movement is held against. That continuity is what keeps the chain of custody intact from the kitchen door to the aircraft steps.
Halal airline meals and special meals at Preguiça airport
Royal flight catering standards per cabin at SNE
Menus at Preguiça are built to the cabin and the mission first, and to the season second, so a First-cabin service and a crew meal boxed for the same rotation never share a specification. Local sourcing draws on Cape Verde produce where the season allows it — orchard fruit, dairy and fish worked into a standing menu rather than a one-off dish. Inflight catering at GVSN is written and re-approved on a cycle, never improvised against a departure time. Every tray is labelled per passenger and per cabin against a documented allergen, halal, kosher or medical set, so the label travels with the tray rather than with a separate sheet.
First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins at Preguiça are plated to a written specification rather than to a standing menu card, with caviar and à-la-carte service available on request. VIP flight catering here is filed against that specification before departure, so the same service can be repeated on the next rotation without reworking it.
Business cabins
Business cabins at GVSN take multi-choice hot service built to a cabin specification, boxed in oven-ready formats sized to the galley fitted to the aircraft. Crew meals, cabin crew meals and pilot meals are boxed separately and labelled to the roster, so the tray sets never mix passenger and crew allocations.
Protocol & dietary
Household, religious and medical requirements are documented per passenger rather than left to a verbal note, covering halal and kosher sets alongside the full range of IATA special meal codes. Inflight catering built to these codes is produced on a separate line and sealed before it leaves that line, keeping every dietary set traceable back to the passenger it was written for.
The three books
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Royal & Government Flights
Royal households · government · state operations
- Plated service · First to main cabin
- Protocol handling · security clearance
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Charter & Commercial
Charter · ACMI · group · scheduled · ad hoc
- 400 passengers · one uplift
- HACCP cold chain, logged to the galley door
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Private Jet
Business jet · VVIP charter · flight departments
- From 8 covers · plated forward
- Reheat sequence specified per dish
Compliance
HACCP-compliant aircraft catering at Preguiça
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.
Flight catering airside delivery at Preguiça, Cape Verde
Preguiça works a narrow-body-rated traffic profile off a single runway, which sets a fixed rotation pattern rather than a peak-wave one: repeat sectors, tight turnarounds, and little room to absorb a late change to the loading plan. Airline catering at GVSN is built around that pattern, with in-flight catering and aviation catering run from one ops desk so a diversion or a delayed departure is worked as a schedule change rather than a new booking.
The uplift reaches the aircraft by sealed cart from our kitchen to the stand, boarded through hi-loader access to galley height rather than set down at the foot of the aircraft. Airport catering at SNE is planned stand by stand, with ramp access held on our own clearance so the convoy does not queue behind unrelated ground traffic. Inflight catering in Preguiça and aviation catering in Cape Verde both run to that same routing.
On every rotation we commit one coordinator, sealed carts and a signed handover, so responsibility for the load never passes between untracked hands.
VVIP catering alongside scheduled flights at Preguiça
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Government and state flight catering at Preguiça
Our kitchen at Preguiça produces to the same HACCP-run specification whether the flight is a scheduled sector or a head of state movement, which is what lets government flight catering here scale up without a separate build. Delegations and official movements are worked from a protocol file documented per passenger, with security-cleared staff and the uplift sealed before it leaves the kitchen.
Government & state flights →
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at GVSN
A 1400 m runway serves every movement through Preguiça alike, and that includes the private airliners — BBJ, ACJ, wide-body VIP — that royal flight catering here is written for. Household standards are held across repeat rotations from a specification kept on file between movements, with halal and other household requirements produced on request at catering at GVSN.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at SNE
Narrow-body-rated aircraft board here on a single reference code, and that same code governs the full three-cabin uplift ACMI and wet-lease operators bring through on a group movement. Charter flight catering at Preguiça for special missions is counted against the loading sheet and staged in the order the galleys are laid out, and charter flight catering at GVSN follows the identical sequence on every repeat rotation.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at Preguiça
A single 1400 m runway at Preguiça sets a fixed turnaround rhythm, and that rhythm is what ad hoc airline catering is built to keep pace with. Carriers running this station as an outstation draw on outstation catering, diversion catering and technical stop catering off one duty roster, with AOG covered and crew meals in Cape Verde boxed to the same roster across a multi-leg rotation. Ad hoc catering at SNE and diversion catering at SNE both run off that same desk, so a schedule change never becomes a new supplier conversation.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at GVSN
On the same narrow-body-rated field that serves the scheduled and charter traffic, business aviation is worked from the GA terminal and the FBOs on it rather than from a separate ramp. Private jet catering in Cape Verde is delivered on the same cold chain and the same paperwork as an airline uplift, whatever the size of the aircraft on the stand.
Private jets →
Charter flight catering trusted at Preguiça (SNE)
Flight departments on jet catering at GVSN
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
Scheduled airline
“We used the team at Preguiça (SNE/GVSN) for contingency catering after an unexpected operational change. Even with the late change, the meals were packed correctly and delivered within the revised window. We would use them again for another short-notice stop. Responses were quick whenever we had a question, which helped us keep the flight on schedule.”
★★★★★Private jet operator
Anna — VIP Trip Manager
“For an operation away from our normal base, we arranged airline catering at outstations at Preguiça (SNE/GVSN). The crew received exactly what was ordered, with clear labels and no last-minute chasing from operations. We would be comfortable using the service there again. Responses were quick whenever we had a question, which helped us keep the flight on schedule.”
★★★★★Charter operator
Emma — Flight Planning Manager
“We requested an airline catering cost for Preguiça (SNE/GVSN) and appreciated how clear the pricing was. Pricing, delivery timing, and packaging were all explained upfront, which helped us approve the uplift quickly. We appreciated the transparency. That made the turnaround easier for both the flight crew and the team on the ground.”
★★★★☆Scheduled airline
Giorgio — Airport Services Manager
Airport catering data for Preguiça (GVSN / SNE)
| Datum | Value |
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| Longest runway | 1,400 m |
| Runways | 1 |
| Aerodrome reference code | narrow-body |
| ICAO | GVSN |
Aircraft catering questions at GVSN / SNE
Technical stop catering questions at Preguiça airport
What operations gets asked every week about Preguiça.
Ask operations directly →Can we cater VIP, VVIP and government flights through Preguiça, and under what protocol?
Yes: VIP flight catering and government flight catering both run under a documented protocol, with the file built per passenger and the uplift sealed before it leaves the kitchen.
Do you publish what airline catering costs at Preguiça Airport?
Yes, though not as a fixed price list: airline catering cost depends on cabin count, specification and the loading window booked, and the desk returns a quotation once those are set.
Given the single runway, is airline catering delivered airside at SNE?
There is a dedicated airside route from our kitchen to the stand, with airline catering boarded by hi-loader to galley height rather than left at the foot of the aircraft; airside delivery is escorted end to end.
Which lead time does GVSN need for an order, and how late can a specification still change?
The sealed cart is loaded against a fixed loading window, so how far in advance an order is placed sets how much room is left for a late change; last minute airline catering is worked case by case against that window.
What halal, kosher and special meal codes does Preguiça produce, and how are they documented?
We produce halal and kosher sets alongside the full range of IATA SPML codes, each one documented per passenger and sealed on a separate production line before it leaves the kitchen.
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Airline & VIP flight catering →
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Airline & VIP flight catering →
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Airline & VIP flight catering →
Flight catering quote for Preguiça, Cape Verde
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Four steps
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Offloading
Return leg, if any
Order
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Contact
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Uplift at Preguiça (SNE)