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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt
Airline catering, VIP flight catering and private jet catering — Sharm El Sheikh (HESH / SSH)
SSH (IATA) · HESH (ICAO)
A wide-body reference code at Sharm El Sheikh means the stands here are built for large-cabin aircraft, and our hi-loader reaches every galley door on that airframe class without a foot-of-aircraft handoff. We run inflight catering, in-flight catering and the wide-body uplift itself off one ramp-side desk, boarding three cabins directly onto the aircraft.
3,081 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 — Sharm El Sheikh
Inflight catering with hi-loader boarding at Sharm El Sheikh
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Aircraft catering lead times at SSH
Aviation catering from sealed cart to galley door at HESH / SSH
The loading window at Sharm El Sheikh runs from the sealed cart at our kitchen to the galley door on the wide-body stand, and it is measured on that route rather than promised in the abstract. Ramp access is what makes the timing repeatable: our own badges get the cart onto the apron without waiting on a shared handoff at the foot of the aircraft. Every catering uplift here follows the same sequence, cart sealed, apron cleared, cart opened at the galley.
Between our kitchen and the stand at Sharm El Sheikh sit screening, escort and the ordinary traffic of a working apron, and the chain of custody is planned against the worst of those, not the average case. A galley catering run only counts as complete once the cart that left sealed is the cart that arrives sealed, checked against the same manifest at both ends. We log temperature at sealing and again at handover, and the catering uplift closes on a signature at the galley door, not on a delivery note left at the ramp.
One coordinator owns the load from the sealed kitchen cart to the signed galley handover.
Pilot meals and cabin service produced for HESH
Cargo crew meals produced to the same standard at Sharm El Sheikh
The flight kitchen that provisions Sharm El Sheikh runs hot production, pastry, a cold larder and a protocol line under one roof, feeding the wide-body stands this station operates. Airport catering from that single site covers scheduled, charter and VIP rotations without splitting production across sites, and every tray leaving it is built to HACCP standard from intake to seal. That single-site model is what lets airport catering at Sharm El Sheikh hold one cold chain from the larder to the cart.
The team that handles government flight catering at Sharm El Sheikh is the same named crew on every rotation, carrying security clearance on file and standing on the access list rather than rotating in ad hoc. They are trained to royal household standards and to the paperwork a sealed uplift travels with, from kitchen seal to galley signature. That continuity is what a protocol officer checks first when catering at SSH is booked for a repeat movement.
Halal airline meals and special meals at Sharm El Sheikh airport
Royal flight catering standards per cabin at SSH
Menus at Sharm El Sheikh are written to the cabin and the mission, not to a single fixed offer: forward cabins carry a plated specification, the main cabin carries a multi-choice hot service, and both draw on the country's produce where the season allows it, from Nile Delta dairy and orchard fruit to Red Sea fish. Inflight catering in Sharm El Sheikh is planned against that seasonal supply rather than a printed catalogue, so a summer departure and a winter one are not offered the same tray. Every dietary and religious set is documented per passenger and per cabin before the cart is sealed, matched against the manifest rather than assumed from the booking class. That documentation is what keeps a large multi-class load consistent from the first tray boarded to the last.
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First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins at Sharm El Sheikh are plated to a written specification held on file between rotations, with à-la-carte and caviar service available on request rather than fixed to a single standing menu. VIP flight catering here is filed against that specification, checked cabin by cabin before the cart leaves the kitchen sealed.
Business cabins
Business cabins at HESH run a multi-choice hot service in oven-ready formats sized to the galley fitted on the aircraft, boarded as tray sets rather than loose trolleys. Crew meals, cabin crew meals and pilot meals travel in separate boxed sets against the roster, kept apart from the passenger load at Sharm El Sheikh.
Protocol & dietary
Protocol and dietary requirements at Sharm El Sheikh are documented per passenger, covering household, religious and medical sets against the full range of IATA special meal codes, halal and kosher included. Inflight catering on this line is produced apart from the main service and sealed before it leaves that line, ready to match the manifest at boarding.
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 Sharm El Sheikh (SSH)
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 Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt
Sharm El Sheikh carries scheduled, charter and government traffic across two runways rated to a wide-body reference code, and that mix sets three different problems for catering: a delegation is a documentation problem, a charter peak is a capacity problem, and a repeat leisure rotation is a repetition problem that has to hold to the same tray standard week after week.
Airline catering, inflight catering and in-flight catering here move from our own flight kitchen to the stand by sealed cart, boarded by hi-loader directly to galley height rather than handed off at the foot of the aircraft. Ramp access on our own badges is what keeps that route under our control from kitchen door to galley door, wide-body stand by wide-body stand.
Whatever the segment, airport catering at Sharm El Sheikh runs behind one coordinator, sealed carts and a signed handover, with the same aviation catering standard applied whether the load is a single business jet or a full wide-body rotation.
VVIP catering alongside scheduled flights at Sharm El Sheikh
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Government and state flight catering at HESH
A 3,081 metre runway at Sharm El Sheikh takes the aircraft types state and diplomatic movements actually fly, which is what lets government flight catering run here without adapting the aircraft to the station. Delegations and official movements travel with the protocol file documented per passenger, security-cleared staff on the load, and catering at HESH sealed before it leaves the kitchen for any head of state movement routed through this field.
Government & state flights →
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at SSH
A private airliner — BBJ, ACJ or wide-body VIP — is one of the aircraft types the 3,081 metre runway at Sharm El Sheikh takes without restriction, which is the reason royal flight catering can be held here to a standing specification. That specification, covering halal and household dietary requirements, stays on file between movements so a royal household or VVIP rotation is served to the same standard on every repeat visit.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at Sharm El Sheikh
Across the wide-body stands at this station, the 3,081 metre runway is what lets charter flight catering take a full-size airframe on a group movement rather than a smaller substitute type. Charter flight catering here covers ACMI and wet-lease operators, group movements and special missions with a full three-cabin uplift counted against the loading sheet and staged to the order the galleys are laid out.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at HESH
A wide-body reference code at Sharm El Sheikh means our kitchen builds to one tray standard across cabin classes, and carriers running this station as an outstation draw on that same standard for ad hoc airline catering whenever a rotation lands outside its normal schedule. Outstation catering, diversion catering, technical stop catering and AOG cover sit on the same duty roster, with crew meals in Egypt boxed against the roster and crew meals at SSH held to the identical cold chain as the passenger load across a multi-leg rotation.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at SSH
Sequencing a business jet load against a wide-body rotation on the same reference code is the constraint every FBO delivery at Sharm El Sheikh is built around, since the ramp and the kitchen run to one schedule regardless of aircraft size. Private jet catering in Egypt reaches the FBOs on the field and the GA terminal on the same cold chain and paperwork as an airline uplift, with business aviation catering and FBO catering handled by our dedicated private-jet branch, business jet catering included.
Private jets →
Charter flight catering trusted at SSH
Operators on commercial aviation catering at HESH
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
Scheduled airline
“For our departure from Sharm El Sheikh (SSH/HESH), we specifically needed airline meal boxes. The order came ready for service with no unnecessary packaging or loose items to sort through. Good attention to the operational side of catering. That made the turnaround easier for both the flight crew and the team on the ground.”
★★★★★Private jet operator
Hassan — VIP Aviation Coordinator
“We had an outstation requirement at Sharm El Sheikh (SSH/HESH) and the coordination was very smooth. Communication between dispatch, handling, and catering was clear throughout. Good support for a changing flight schedule. That made the turnaround easier for both the flight crew and the team on the ground. Updates were timely and the final delivery matched the confirmation we had from operations.”
★★★★★Charter operator
Florian — Charter Flight Coordinator
“We used the team for private jet catering at Sharm El Sheikh (SSH/HESH) on a VIP trip. The food arrived fresh and well presented, with clear labels and packaging that actually worked in our galley. A very good experience from a flight attendant perspective. That made the turnaround easier for both the flight crew and the team on the ground.”
★★★★★Scheduled airline
Gabriel — Station Operations Supervisor
Airport catering profile for Sharm El Sheikh (HESH / SSH)
| Datum | Value |
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| Longest runway | 3,081 m |
| Runways | 2 |
| Aerodrome reference code | wide-body |
| ICAO | HESH |
Business jet catering questions at Sharm El Sheikh airport
Diversion catering and ramp questions at Sharm El Sheikh airport
What operations gets asked every week about Sharm El Sheikh.
Ask operations directly →How does airline catering reach the aircraft airside at Sharm El Sheikh?
Sharm El Sheikh is worked by hi-loader from our own kitchen straight to galley height, with airside delivery held on our own ramp badges rather than a handoff at the foot of the aircraft.
Is there a minimum lead time for an order at Sharm El Sheikh Airport, and how late can the specification change?
Our coordinator confirms cabin count and loading window as far in advance as the schedule allows, and still takes a specification change later than most desks will, right up to the loading window itself, including last minute airline catering for an irregular rotation.
When can private jet catering be delivered to the FBOs and the GA terminal at SSH?
Once a slot and stand are confirmed on the field, FBO catering is delivered to the FBOs on the field and the GA terminal on the same cold chain as an airline uplift.
Where are halal, kosher and the IATA special meal codes documented for a flight through HESH?
The passenger manifest carries every special meal code, SPML included, against each seat, and halal and kosher sets are produced on a separate line and sealed before the cart matches that manifest.
What does airline catering cost at Sharm El Sheikh, since no price list is published?
We price against cabin count, specification and the loading window booked for the rotation, and our desk returns a quotation once those three are confirmed.
Which flights can be catered under VIP, VVIP and government protocol at Sharm El Sheikh Airport?
The same hi-loader and sealed cart route used for a scheduled rotation carries VIP flight catering and government flight catering under full protocol, with royal and VVIP movements held to a household specification kept on file.
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Airline & VIP flight catering →
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