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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — El Arish, Egypt
Airline catering, VIP and private jet catering at El Arish (HEAR / AAC)
AAC (IATA) · HEAR (ICAO)
A wide-body reference code held at El Arish sets the sequence a loading plan has to work around, so multi-class rotations are staged stand by stand before the cart ever moves. Inflight catering, in-flight catering and aviation catering here board by hi-loader to galley height off one wide-body kitchen run, uplift moving airside from seal to stand for scheduled, charter, VIP, government and private jet flights.
3,019 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 — El Arish
Aviation catering with ramp access at HEAR / AAC
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Aircraft catering lead times at HEAR / AAC
Inflight catering tracked kitchen to aircraft at El Arish (AAC)
Every catering uplift at AAC is tracked from the moment it is sealed at our kitchen to the moment it is signed for at the galley door. Ramp access at El Arish removes the handoff at the foot of the aircraft that a kerbside delivery would otherwise need, since the hi-loader carries the load straight to cabin height. That single change of method is what the timeline below measures, stand by stand.
Between our kitchen and the stand at El Arish sit screening, escort and apron traffic, and the convoy is the risk this plan is built against, not the food once it is sealed. We route the catering uplift through the checkpoints that carry the least exposure on a given day, and hold the escort to the same sequence on every rotation regardless of which cabin it is feeding. Chain of custody runs unbroken from the kitchen to the galley: temperatures are logged when the cart is sealed and logged again at handover, and a named signature closes the load before the hi-loader clears the apron, which is what turns galley catering at HEAR into a documented event rather than a delivery.
One coordinator carries the seal from our kitchen to the signature at the galley door.
Pilot meals prepared for El Arish rotations
Airline food supplier crews cleared for El Arish, Egypt
The flight kitchen behind El Arish runs hot production, pastry, a cold larder and a protocol cell under one roof, built to HACCP standard from intake to load-out. Airport catering at El Arish covers scheduled, charter and VIP rotations without separating the lines that feed them, so a wide-body departure and a government movement draw on the same cold chain on the same day. That structure is what lets airport catering at HEAR hold one standard across a mixed board, rather than treating each mission as a separate kitchen run.
The team behind government flight catering at El Arish is the same named crew on every rotation, not a rotating pool assembled per booking. Each member carries security clearance on file and sits on the access list before a delegation is confirmed, trained to the household standards a protocol officer expects and to the paperwork that has to travel with a sealed uplift. That continuity is what keeps a repeat movement recognisable to the same desk each time it lands.
Halal airline meals and special meals at AAC
Royal flight catering standards per cabin at HEAR / AAC
Menus at El Arish are written to the cabin, the mission and the season rather than to a fixed cycle, so a scheduled rotation and a charter movement do not draw on the same fixed set. Inflight catering at AAC draws on Egypt's produce where the season allows it, working dairy, orchard fruit and fish into the main-cabin and premium sets without naming a single supplier or dish. Special meal sets are documented per passenger and per cabin, covering allergen, halal, kosher and medical requirements against the IATA codes a booking specifies. Every set, from a passenger meal box to a VVIP tray, is labelled before it is sealed, so the galley receiving it can match load to manifest without opening a case.
First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins at El Arish are plated to a written specification rather than a fixed cycle, with VIP flight catering held to the same standard on every repeat rotation. Caviar and à-la-carte service are available on request, filed against the standing order so a change of mission never means a change of format at HEAR.
Business cabins
Business cabins at AAC take multi-choice hot service built to cabin specification, oven-ready in formats sized to the galley fitted to the aircraft on the stand. Crew meals and cabin crew meals travel in the same tray sets, with pilot meals boxed separately to the roster for crew meals at El Arish and crew meals in El Arish alike.
Protocol & dietary
Protocol and dietary sets at HEAR document household, religious and medical requirements per passenger, produced on a separate line and sealed before it leaves it. Halal and kosher sets are built against the full range of IATA special meal codes, so inflight catering in El Arish covers a mixed cabin without a single tray going unlabelled.
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 El Arish 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 El Arish airport
El Arish handles scheduled, charter and government traffic across two runways and a wide-body reference code, and that mix turns each movement into its own kind of problem: a delegation is a documentation problem, a peak wave is a capacity problem, a repeat charter rotation is a repetition problem the standard has to survive unchanged.
Airline catering in El Arish moves from our flight kitchen to the wide-body stands by hi-loader, boarded to galley height rather than left at the foot of the aircraft, with ramp access held on our own badges rather than passed through an intermediate drop. Inflight catering at HEAR and in-flight catering in Egypt run off the same ops desk, so a diversion or a late change of stand does not require a second point of contact.
What we commit to on this station is one coordinator per rotation, sealed carts from kitchen to stand, and a signed handover at the galley door, which is what keeps aviation catering in Egypt and airport catering in Egypt accountable to a single name rather than a shift pattern.
VVIP catering alongside scheduled flights at HEAR / AAC
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Government and state flight catering at HEAR
Our kitchen produces to a written protocol specification well before a movement is confirmed, which is what a 3019 metre runway at this wide-body-rated field makes possible: government flight catering at El Arish for state visits and official delegations documented per passenger, with security-cleared staff and the uplift sealed before it leaves the kitchen. Head of state movements draw on the same chain of custody as any other rotation here, held to protocol rather than to volume.
Government & state flights →
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at AAC
The 3019 metre runway at El Arish takes the private airliners this segment flies on, from BBJ and ACJ conversions to wide-body VIP configurations, without a separate approval each time one is booked. Royal flight catering at El Arish is held to a written household specification kept on file between movements, with halal sets and other household dietary requirements produced on request against the same standard the royal household expects on every repeat rotation, VVIP or otherwise.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at El Arish
A wide-body aircraft on an ACMI or wet-lease rotation is what the reference code held at El Arish is built to take, group movements and special missions included, on the same stands as a scheduled service. Charter flight catering at El Arish for tour operator and repatriation work, and charter flight catering at HEAR for sports team and humanitarian movements, both board a full three-cabin uplift counted against the loading sheet and staged in galley order across a multi-leg pattern.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at HEAR
A 3019 metre runway, and that length is what lets El Arish take a scheduled wide-body rotation alongside an ad hoc call-out on the same working day. Ad hoc airline catering at HEAR serves carriers running this station as an outstation, with outstation catering, diversion catering and technical stop catering, AOG included, sequenced off one duty roster across a multi-leg pattern, while crew meals at HEAR and crew meals at AAC travel on the same ad hoc catering at AAC ticket as the passenger load, and ad hoc airline catering at HEAR and diversion catering at AAC never wait on a separate booking line.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at AAC
On the wide-body-rated apron at El Arish, the same reference code that clears a scheduled aircraft also clears the smaller movements routed to the GA terminal and the FBOs on the field. Private jet catering at AAC reaches them on the same cold chain and the same paperwork as an airline uplift, with FBO catering, business aviation catering and business jet catering all run from the one flight kitchen rather than a separate line.
Private jets →
Charter flight catering reviewed at El Arish
Operators on commercial aviation catering at El Arish
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
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Scheduled airline
“We used sports team charter catering at El Arish (AAC/HEAR) for a team charter and had a good experience. The order included different meal types and snacks, but the cabin crew could identify everything immediately. We would book them again for another team movement. The order was complete on arrival and easy for us to check before closing the doors.”
★★★★★Charter operator
Ethan — Flight Operations Supervisor
“We arranged troop flight catering at El Arish (AAC/HEAR) for a non-routine passenger movement. The meals were practical, clearly packed, and easy for the crew to distribute during the flight. Reliable service when the mission does not allow delays. The final handover was simple and there was nothing for the crew to correct before departure.”
★★★★★Scheduled airline
Youssef — Ground Handling Coordinator
“We used the team at El Arish (AAC/HEAR) for cargo airline crew catering on a night operation. Meals arrived on time and were packed practically for a working crew rather than over-presented. We would use them again for another cargo sector. From an operational point of view, the service was easy to manage and required very little follow-up.”
★★★★★Scheduled airline
Eduardo — Station Performance Manager
Airport catering profile for El Arish (HEAR / AAC)
| Datum | Value |
|---|---|
| Longest runway | 3,019 m |
| Runways | 2 |
| Aerodrome reference code | wide-body |
| ICAO | HEAR |
Business jet catering questions at AAC
Technical stop catering questions at AAC
What operations gets asked every week about El Arish.
Ask operations directly →Is airline catering delivered airside at El Arish, and how does the uplift reach the aircraft?
Our coordinator takes the sealed cart from the kitchen through airside delivery to the stand, where it is boarded by hi-loader straight to galley height rather than left at the foot of the aircraft.
At which point does private jet catering reach the FBOs and the GA terminal at El Arish?
The first step is the same sealed cart leaving our kitchen; from there private jet catering and FBO catering are routed to whichever FBO or the GA terminal the movement is parked at, on the same paperwork as an airline load.
Does airline catering cost the same for every booking at AAC?
Every quotation depends on cabin count, specification and the loading window requested, since we do not publish a fixed price list; the desk comes back with a figure once those three are known.
How far do halal, kosher and the IATA special meal codes go at HEAR?
Every SPML code we produce rests on the same HACCP-run kitchen line, with halal and kosher sets documented per passenger and sealed before they leave the production line.
Who sets the protocol for VIP, VVIP and government flight catering at El Arish?
On every such movement the household or the protocol office sets the specification, and our cleared staff follow it exactly, from the sealed uplift to the signed handover at the aircraft.
Outstation catering near El Arish
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El Jora
Egypt · 31 km from El Arish
Airline & VIP flight catering →
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Airline & VIP flight catering →
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Taba
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Airline & VIP flight catering →
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Uplift at El Arish (AAC)