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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — Abeche, Chad
VIP & private jet catering with airline catering at Abeche (FTTC / AEH)
AEH (IATA) · FTTC (ICAO)
The single wide-body-rated runway at Abeche, 2,800 metres long, sets the aircraft this station can turn: enough for a scheduled wide-body rotation, a government movement or a large charter, each boarded from our own kitchen rather than dropped at the aircraft steps. Inflight catering here runs through hi-loader boarding to galley height, with in-flight catering staged for uplift as soon as the stand is called, so a multi-leg schedule keeps its sequence airside.
2,800 m
Longest runway
Wide-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 — Abeche
Inflight catering with hi-loader boarding at FTTC / AEH
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Airport catering order window at Abeche (AEH)
Aircraft catering handover at the galley door, FTTC
Every catering uplift at Abeche starts with a sealed cart leaving our kitchen on a fixed route to the stand, never a delivery left waiting at the foot of the aircraft. Ramp access is held on our own badges, so the convoy crosses the apron on a path agreed with the ramp handler rather than queued behind general traffic. What the timeline below shows is that route timed end to end, from seal to signature at the galley door.
Between our kitchen and the stand at Abeche the risk sits in the convoy, not in the food: screening, an escort across the apron, and the ordinary traffic of a single-runway field all sit ahead of the galley catering being carried. We plan the catering uplift against the slowest of those, not the fastest, so the loading window absorbs a delay before the aircraft does.
Temperature is logged twice, once when the cart is sealed at the kitchen and again at handover on the stand, and both readings travel with the load as part of its chain of custody. The same document carries the escort's signature and the time the galley door closed, so the record that leaves with the aircraft is the same one that started at the kitchen.
One coordinator owns the load from the kitchen seal to the galley door signature.
Cargo crew meals and passenger uplifts for Abeche, Chad
Airline food supplier crews cleared for Abeche airport
The kitchen provisioning Abeche runs hot production, pastry, a cold larder and a protocol line under one roof, holding the HACCP standard the whole operation is built on. Airport catering at FTTC moves from that kitchen to the stand on a fixed cold chain, with tray sets and passenger meal boxes staged ahead of the loading window rather than assembled against it. Airport catering in Chad is provisioned to the same production standard as any wide-body station on the network, kitchen to stand.
The team that handles government flight catering at Abeche is the same named crew every rotation, carried on the access list rather than rotated in ad hoc. Each member holds a current security clearance on file, trained to royal household standards and to the paperwork that has to travel with a sealed uplift. That continuity is what a protocol officer checks first, and it is held constant here whichever mission is on the stand.
Kosher inflight catering and dietary sets at FTTC / AEH
Royal flight catering standards per cabin at Abeche (AEH)
Menus for Abeche are written to the cabin and the mission first, then adjusted through the season, so a VIP flight menu and a charter flight menu drawn on the same day can differ completely in course count and plating. Regional produce from Chad, dairy, grain and orchard fruit where the season allows, is worked into the specification rather than left generic. Inflight catering at FTTC closes on documentation, not on taste: every allergen, halal, kosher and medical set is logged per passenger and per cabin before it leaves the kitchen. That record travels with the load, so the galley receives exactly what was ordered and nothing that was not.
First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins at Abeche are plated to a written specification rather than to a standing menu, with caviar and à-la-carte service available on request. VIP flight catering here is filed against the same order each rotation, so repeat movements see a consistent presentation without a fresh brief every time.
Business cabins
Business cabins at FTTC take multi-choice hot service in oven-ready formats sized to the galley fitted to the aircraft, boxed as tray sets rather than plated individually. Crew meals at Abeche are boxed separately from the cabin service, with cabin crew meals and pilot meals kept apart on the loading sheet so the flight deck set is never mixed with the galley run.
Protocol & dietary
Household, religious and medical requirements at Abeche are documented per passenger before the cart is sealed, with halal and kosher sets produced on a separate line and the full range of IATA special meal codes covered. Inflight catering at AEH keeps that line apart from the main cabin run, so a dietary set reaches the galley already matched to its passenger record.
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 Abeche airport
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 AEH
Abeche sees scheduled, charter and government traffic across its single wide-body-rated runway, and each of those brings a different catering problem: a delegation arrives with a protocol file to match passenger by passenger, a charter wave brings a full three-cabin load to stage against one stand, and a repeat rotation asks for the same tray set produced the same way each time. Airline catering in Abeche is planned around whichever of those the stand is called for that day.
The uplift itself moves from our kitchen to the stand on a fixed route, sealed before it leaves and escorted across the apron rather than handed off at the kitchen door. Inflight catering in Abeche and in-flight catering in Chad both run off that same route, with airside delivery held to the loading window agreed for that rotation and ramp access carried on our own badges rather than a general pass.
What we commit to at this station is one coordinator per rotation, sealed carts logged at both ends, and a signed handover at the galley door, so aviation catering in Abeche closes with a record rather than a guess.
Airline, charter and VVIP catering at FTTC / AEH
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Government and state flight catering at AEH
One wide-body-rated runway of 2,800 metres, and that is what a delegation movement here has to fit inside: a single stand sequence rather than a choice of aprons. Government flight catering at Abeche for a head of state aircraft or an official delegation is documented per passenger, produced by security-cleared staff, and sealed at the kitchen before it ever reaches catering at FTTC on the ramp.
Government & state flights →
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at Abeche
We hold the aerodrome reference code at Abeche to wide-body standard, and that lets a private airliner in the BBJ or ACJ class turn here on the same stand sequence as a scheduled service. Royal flight catering at this station is held to a written household specification kept on file between movements, with halal and other household dietary requirements produced against that same record on request.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at FTTC
Wide-body is the aerodrome reference code held at Abeche, and it is what lets a group charter or an ACMI rotation turn here on the same stand sequence as scheduled traffic. Charter flight catering at Abeche for wet-lease operators, group movements and special missions runs as a full three-cabin uplift, counted against the loading sheet and staged in the order the galleys are laid out for charter flight catering in Abeche.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at AEH
A single wide-body-rated runway of 2,800 metres forces every rotation through Abeche onto the same stand sequence, so a schedule change here has to be absorbed rather than routed around. Ad hoc airline catering at AEH covers carriers running this station as an outstation, with outstation catering, diversion catering and technical stop catering held on one duty roster; crew meals at Abeche and crew meals in Chad move on the same ad hoc catering at AEH ticket across a multi-leg rotation, AOG included.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at Abeche
A business jet turning at Abeche uses the same wide-body-rated stand infrastructure as the larger traffic here, since the field carries no separate GA apron of its own. Private jet catering in Abeche is delivered to the FBOs on the field through our dedicated branch, on the same cold chain and the same paperwork as an airline uplift.
Private jets →
Aviation catering trusted by operators at Abeche
Operators on commercial aviation catering at Abeche, Chad
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
Scheduled airline
“We requested galley ready meals at Abeche (AEH/FTTC) and the packaging worked very well onboard. The order came ready for service with no unnecessary packaging or loose items to sort through. Good attention to the operational side of catering. The final handover was simple and there was nothing for the crew to correct before departure.”
★★★★★Private jet operator
Giulia — Cabin Operations Lead
“Our operation through Abeche (AEH/FTTC) included an ACMI request at short notice. Communication between dispatch, handling, and catering was clear throughout. That operational understanding was the biggest advantage. The order was complete on arrival and easy for us to check before closing the doors. Responses were quick whenever we had a question, which helped us keep the flight on schedule.”
★★★★★Charter operator
Leila — Charter Account Manager
“We used the team for private jet catering at Abeche (AEH/FTTC) on a VIP trip. The team was responsive to a late change and the final order still arrived looking polished. Exactly what I want from a private aviation caterer. The order was complete on arrival and easy for us to check before closing the doors.”
★★★★☆Scheduled airline
Felix — Operations Control Officer
Airport catering reference for Abeche (FTTC / AEH)
| Datum | Value |
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| Longest runway | 2,800 m |
| Runways | 1 |
| Aerodrome reference code | wide-body |
| ICAO | FTTC |
Business jet catering questions at FTTC / AEH
Diversion catering and ramp questions at FTTC / AEH
What operations gets asked every week about Abeche.
Ask operations directly →At which point does airline catering at FTTC reach the aircraft, and how is it boarded?
The sealed cart leaves our kitchen first and travels a fixed route across the apron before airside delivery to the stand, where the load is boarded by hi-loader straight to galley door height rather than left at the foot of the aircraft.
Abeche — do you cater VIP, VVIP and government flights, and under what protocol?
The hi-loader carries the sealed cart to galley height on every VIP flight catering and government flight catering movement here, with the protocol file matched to the passenger record before the cart is sealed.
Can an order for Abeche airport be placed close to departure, and how late can the specification still change?
The lead time for a standard rotation runs from the point the loading window is confirmed, and how far in advance a change can be accepted depends on where the cart sits in that window; a request placed after sealing is handled as a same-day amendment rather than a fresh order, so last minute airline catering is still worked wherever the schedule allows it.
How much does airline catering cost at AEH?
The airline catering cost at this station rests on the security clearance and HACCP standard held for the rotation, plus cabin count and the specification agreed for it, so our desk quotes each request rather than working from a published rate.
Commercial aviation catering near Abeche
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Airline & VIP flight catering →
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Airline & VIP flight catering →
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Airline & VIP flight catering →
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Abeche (AEH / FTTC)
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Four steps
Flight
Aircraft · stand · local time
Offloading
Return leg, if any
Order
Counts · menus · files
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