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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — Alexandria, Egypt
VIP flight catering, airline catering and private jet catering at Alexandria (HEAX / HBE)
HBE (IATA) · HEAX (ICAO)
Two runways and a wide-body reference code mean any full-rotation aircraft working Alexandria boards from a stand built for it, not around it. In-flight catering in Egypt runs on hi-loader boarding to galley height, with inflight catering staged from the kitchen and uplift held on wide-body carts for scheduled, charter, VIP and government movements; inflight catering at Alexandria answers to one ops desk, airside, on call.
3,400 m
Longest runway
Wide-body
Largest aircraft handled
2
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 — Alexandria
Wide-body aviation catering at Alexandria, Egypt
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Inflight catering order window for HEAX / HBE departures
Aviation catering from sealed cart to galley door at Alexandria (HBE)
The loading window at Alexandria is measured from the moment a cart is sealed at our kitchen to the moment it is signed for at the galley door, not estimated after the fact. Ramp access is held on our own clearance rather than requested per rotation, which keeps the catering uplift moving even when apron traffic is heavy around HBE. Every stage between the seal and the signature is timed, logged and available to the ops desk that booked it.
Between our kitchen and the wide-body stands at Alexandria sit screening, an escorted convoy and apron traffic, and the convoy is the part of the load that carries the risk, not the galley catering itself. We plan the route against the worst of that traffic rather than the average of it, and hold the same chain of custody whatever the rotation looks like on the day. Temperature is logged when the cart is sealed at the kitchen and logged again at handover, and the paperwork that follows the catering uplift closes only once both readings and a signature are on file.
One coordinator owns the load from the sealed cart to the signature at the galley.
Crew meals from the kitchen serving Alexandria
Pilot meals and cleared production crews for Alexandria, Egypt
The flight kitchen that provisions HEAX runs hot production, pastry, a cold larder and a protocol line under one roof, built to serve a wide-body reference code rather than a single narrow-body turnaround. Airport catering at Alexandria depends on that range existing in one place: a delegation and a scheduled rotation can be worked from the same facility without either specification touching the other. HACCP governs every line in the building, and airport catering at HEAX is planned from that one kitchen rather than split across outstations.
The team that handles government flight catering at Alexandria is the same named crew on every rotation, not a rotating pool booked per movement. Security clearance is held on file for each of them, access to the ramp is granted on that same clearance, and training runs to royal household standards as well as to the paperwork that has to travel with a sealed uplift at HBE. That continuity is what a protocol officer is actually checking for when a delegation is booked with short notice.
Halal airline meals and special meals at HBE
Commercial aviation catering written per cabin at HEAX / HBE
Menus at Alexandria are written to the cabin, the mission and the season rather than to a fixed printed card, which is what inflight catering has to be when the same kitchen provisions a scheduled rotation and a government movement in the same week. Egypt's produce enters the specification in general terms — dairy, fish, orchard fruit, regional grains — never as a named dish or a supplier. VIP flight menus and charter flight menus both draw on the same production kitchen but are written against separate cabin counts and separate loading sheets. Every allergen, halal, kosher and medical set is documented per passenger and per cabin before it is sealed for the ramp.
First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins at HEAX receive VIP flight catering plated to a written specification, with caviar and à-la-carte service available on request rather than fixed to a single set menu. The presentation is filed against the standing order for VIP flight catering in Egypt, so a repeat rotation is served to the same brief every time it lands.
Business cabins
Business cabins at HEAX run multi-choice hot service to a written cabin specification, boxed in oven-ready formats sized to the galley fitted on the aircraft rather than a generic tray. Crew meals travel on the same rotation: cabin crew meals and pilot meals are boxed separately to the roster, so a change to one does not touch the other.
Protocol & dietary
Protocol and dietary requirements at Alexandria are documented per passenger rather than assumed from the booking, covering household, religious and medical sets alongside halal and kosher production. The full range of IATA special meal codes is produced on a separate line from the main cabin service and sealed before it leaves the kitchen, which is what inflight catering at HEAX is built to guarantee on a mixed rotation.
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
Aircraft catering under HACCP control at HEAX
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 Alexandria airport
Alexandria carries scheduled, charter and government traffic across two runways, and a wide-body reference code held at the field means a delegation, a peak wave and a repeat charter rotation can each land the same week without one being turned into a documentation problem for the other. Airline catering here is planned against that mix rather than against a single traffic type, and aviation catering runs off one ops desk regardless of which segment books the stand.
Uplift leaves our kitchen on sealed carts and travels by escorted route to the wide-body stand, where hi-loader boarding takes it to galley height rather than to the foot of the aircraft. Airport catering in Egypt depends on that ramp step being held on our own clearance, and in-flight catering in Alexandria is staged so the convoy, not the kitchen, is the part of the operation that is timed most closely.
One coordinator carries the load from seal to signature on every rotation worked at HEAX, whatever the segment.
VVIP catering and commercial flights at Alexandria, Egypt
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Government and state flight catering at HEAX
Our kitchen provisions to a 3400 m runway capable of clearing a head of state aircraft on short notice, and that capacity is what government flight catering at Alexandria is built around. Delegations and official movements travel on 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 HBE
The 3400 m runway at Alexandria clears private airliners in the BBJ and ACJ class as readily as a scheduled wide-body, which is the capacity royal flight catering here depends on. VVIP and household movements are held to a written specification kept on file between rotations, with halal and other household dietary requirements produced on request.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at Alexandria
Wide-body aircraft on ACMI and wet-lease contracts board at Alexandria against the same reference code as a scheduled carrier, which is what lets a group movement or a special mission take a full three-cabin uplift rather than a reduced one. Charter flight catering at HBE is counted against the loading sheet and staged in galley order, and charter flight catering repeats identically across a multi-leg tour.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at HEAX
A 3400 m runway, and the wide-body traffic it clears is what makes Alexandria a genuine outstation rather than a diversion field. Ad hoc airline catering at HEAX covers carriers running this station as an outstation, with outstation catering, diversion catering and technical stop catering worked off the same duty roster and crew meals at Alexandria boxed to whatever roster the rotation carries.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at HBE
Off the same wide-body reference code that clears the main ramp, the GA terminal and the FBOs on the field at Alexandria take business aviation traffic under our dedicated branch. Private jet catering at Alexandria, business aviation catering and business jet catering run on the same cold chain and the same paperwork as an airline uplift, with FBO catering delivered directly to the aircraft.
Private jets →
Charter flight catering trusted at HEAX / HBE
Flight departments on jet catering at Alexandria
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
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Scheduled airline
“We requested tray set catering airline at Alexandria (HBE/HEAX) and the packaging worked very well onboard. Everything was labeled, compact, and easy to place directly into the aircraft without repacking on the ramp. Exactly what we need for a quick galley setup. The final handover was simple and there was nothing for the crew to correct before departure.”
★★★★★Charter operator
Mateo — Cargo Flight Support Manager
“Our operation through Alexandria (HBE/HEAX) included a tech stop request at short notice. Communication between dispatch, handling, and catering was clear throughout. Good support for a changing flight schedule. Responses were quick whenever we had a question, which helped us keep the flight on schedule. From an operational point of view, the service was easy to manage and required very little follow-up.”
★★★★★Scheduled airline
Bianca — Flight Support Supervisor
“I needed reliable private jet menu at Alexandria (HBE/HEAX) for a same-day departure. The team was responsive to a late change and the final order still arrived looking polished. I would definitely order from them again. Responses were quick whenever we had a question, which helped us keep the flight on schedule.”
★★★★☆Scheduled airline
Dario — Station Performance Manager
Airport catering profile for Alexandria (HEAX / HBE)
| Datum | Value |
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| Longest runway | 3,400 m |
| Runways | 2 |
| Aerodrome reference code | wide-body |
| ICAO | HEAX |
Aircraft catering questions at HBE
Diversion catering and ramp questions at HBE
What operations gets asked every week about Alexandria.
Ask operations directly →Where does the airline catering cost at HBE come from?
The quotation is built from the record of cabin count, specification and loading window on each rotation, since we publish no fixed price list; the desk at Alexandria returns a figure once those three are confirmed.
Is VIP flight catering and government flight catering handled under protocol at HEAX?
The same named coordinator who runs a scheduled rotation also runs a government flight catering movement, working from a protocol file documented per passenger for VIP flight catering and delegation work alike.
Who documents halal, kosher and special meal codes for flights through Alexandria?
For every cabin booked, halal and kosher sets and the full range of SPML codes are logged per passenger and produced on a separate line before sealing.
Does Alexandria Airport deliver private jet catering to the FBOs and the GA terminal?
Every aircraft on the field, whether parked at the GA terminal or with an FBO, receives FBO catering on the same chain of custody as an airline uplift.
When is airline catering delivered airside at HBE?
Once a cart clears screening it moves by escorted route to the stand, where hi-loader boarding takes airside delivery to galley height rather than to the foot of the aircraft.
At what point does a specification for HEAX stop being changeable?
The first step is confirming the cabin count and loading window with the desk; after that, the lead time for a specification change narrows, though last minute airline catering can still be worked against the sealed cart schedule.
Outstation catering near Alexandria
DBB / HEAL
El Alamein
Egypt · 118 km from Alexandria
Airline & VIP flight catering →
SPX / HESX
Al Jiza
Egypt · 147 km from Alexandria
Airline & VIP flight catering →
CAI / HECA
Cairo
Egypt · 187 km from Alexandria
Airline & VIP flight catering →
Flight catering quote for Alexandria airport
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Alexandria (HBE / HEAX)
Give us the aircraft and what goes on board. A coordinator comes back with a quote for Alexandria, not a brochure.
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Four steps
Flight
Aircraft · stand · local time
Offloading
Return leg, if any
Order
Counts · menus · files
Contact
Who we come back to
Uplift at Alexandria (HBE)