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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — Sévaré, Mali
Airline catering, VIP & private jet catering at Sévaré (GAMB / MZI)
MZI (IATA) · GAMB (ICAO)
The 2542 m runway at Sévaré takes wide-body movements onto a single wide-body-rated stand, and that reference code is what lets a hi-loader bring inflight catering straight to galley height rather than to the ground beneath the fuselage. In-flight catering here moves by that same route on every uplift, sealed at the kitchen and boarded on the aircraft, not left waiting on the apron for a crew to carry it aboard.
2,542 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 — Sévaré
Aviation catering with ramp access at Sévaré
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Inflight catering order window at MZI
Aircraft catering handover at the galley door, GAMB
Ramp access at Sévaré is what turns a kitchen output into a boarded cabin, not a delivery left on the apron for someone else to carry the last few metres. The catering uplift moves as a sealed run, timed against the aerodrome reference code held on the field rather than against a generic turnaround clock. Every stage between the kitchen door and the galley door is logged against that same wide-body standard, at GAMB and nowhere it can be quietly relaxed.
Between our kitchen and the stand at Sévaré sit screening, an escort through the airside gate and whatever apron traffic the day's movements create, and none of that is left to chance on a wide-body rotation. We plan the galley catering run against the worst of those delays rather than the best case, because a missed sequence at the reference code held here costs more than a few spare minutes ever would. The chain of custody starts when the cart is sealed at the kitchen and does not break until a name is signed against it at the aircraft.
Temperature is logged at that seal and logged again at handover, so the record shows the same cold figures at both ends of the catering uplift. The galley itself only ever sees a cart that has already cleared both checks.
One seal, one route, one signature: that is the whole of the loading window.
Flight kitchen and crew meals for Sévaré, Mali
Airline food supplier crews cleared for Sévaré airport
Airport catering at Sévaré runs from a single production kitchen rather than a network of outposts, which keeps hot production, pastry, a cold larder and the protocol line answerable to one roster instead of several. That structure is what lets airport catering here hold a HACCP standard across every output leaving the building, whether the load is a scheduled rotation or a one-off charter movement. Sévaré's wide-body reference code sets the volume the kitchen is built to move on a single stand, and the cold chain is held from the moment a tray is packed to the moment it clears the galley door.
The team cleared for government flight catering at this station is the same named crew on every rotation, not a rotating pool assembled for the occasion. Security clearance is held on file for each of them, access to the airside route is granted against a fixed list rather than issued case by case, and household service standards are trained into the team rather than briefed the morning of a movement. That continuity is what a protocol officer checks first, and it is also what makes a sealed uplift repeatable at Sévaré across missions that never share a date or a name.
VIP flight catering menus for GAMB / MZI departures
Royal flight catering standards per cabin at Sévaré (MZI)
Menus for MZI are written to the cabin they board and the mission they serve, not to a single fixed cycle repeated regardless of who is flying. A VIP flight menu is planned differently from a charter flight menu even when both leave the same kitchen on the same day, and the season and the produce available in Mali inform both without either one naming a dish. From passenger meal boxes for a scheduled rotation to a plated household service for a private airliner, inflight catering here is built around the specification on file rather than around a standard tray repeated regardless of cabin. Allergen, halal, kosher and medical sets are documented per passenger and per cabin before the uplift ever leaves the kitchen.
First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins at Sévaré are plated to a written specification rather than to a fixed weekly cycle, with caviar and à-la-carte service available on request against the standing order on file. VIP flight catering here is filed and signed off before the cart is sealed, so the presentation on board matches what protocol agreed on the ground.
Business cabins
Business cabins at GAMB run a multi-choice hot service built to the galley fitted on the aircraft, boarded in oven-ready formats sized to that same galley rather than reheated to fit it. Crew meals, cabin crew meals and pilot meals are boxed separately to the roster, so cabin crew meals never compete with the passenger load for space or timing.
Protocol & dietary
Household, religious and medical requirements at Sévaré are documented per passenger before the cart is packed, not assembled from memory at the gate. Halal and kosher sets, along with the full range of IATA special meal codes, are produced on a separate line and sealed apart from the main tray run, which is how inflight catering here keeps a dietary set traceable back to the passenger it was built 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
Aircraft catering food safety at Sévaré (MZI)
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 MZI
Sévaré works a mix of scheduled, charter and government movements across its wide-body-rated stand, and that mix sets the planning problem for every uplift: a delegation arrives with a documentation load to clear before the cart is sealed, a charter wave arrives with a volume problem to sequence, and a repeat rotation arrives with the same tray specification to hold steady week after week. Airline catering in Sévaré is planned against whichever of those pressures the day's traffic actually brings, not against a single fixed routine.
The uplift itself moves from our kitchen to the ramp by airside delivery, with ground handling on the apron and our own escort carrying the load the last stretch to the stand. In-flight catering in Sévaré and aviation catering in Sévaré both run off the same ops desk rather than separate lines, so a diversion or a late change is worked by the same coordinator who planned the original rotation. Airport catering at GAMB is planned stand by stand, with ramp access held on badges we carry ourselves rather than borrowed for the day.
What we commit to on this station is one coordinator per rotation, sealed carts logged at both ends, and a signed handover at the aircraft.
VVIP catering and commercial flights at Sévaré airport
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Government and state flight catering at GAMB
Across Sévaré's single wide-body stand, a head of state aircraft is worked to the same reference code as any other movement, with the protocol file that travels alongside it treated as the variable that changes. Government flight catering here documents each passenger's requirements before the cart leaves the kitchen, with security-cleared staff and a sealed uplift standing in for a dedicated terminal where none is recorded.
Government & state flights →
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at MZI
Sequencing a private airliner into Sévaré's single wide-body stand has to be worked around whatever else the reference code is holding that day, and royal flight catering is planned against that constraint rather than around it. VVIP and household requirements, including halal on request, are held to a written specification kept on file between movements, covering BBJ, ACJ and wide-body VIP configurations alike.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at Sévaré
2542 metres of runway is enough to work a full wide-body movement, which is what makes charter flight catering practical here for ACMI and wet-lease operators alongside scheduled traffic. Group movements and special missions board a full three-cabin uplift counted against the loading sheet, with charter flight catering staged in the order the galleys are laid out rather than loaded in bulk.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at GAMB
A wide-body aircraft working Sévaré as an outstation boards under the same reference code held on the field, which is what makes ad hoc airline catering possible here on short notice rather than only against a published schedule. Outstation catering, diversion catering and technical stop catering all run off one duty roster, with crew meals boxed separately across a multi-leg rotation and AOG covered on the same footing.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at MZI
Our kitchen works the same 2542 m runway and wide-body reference code for business aviation traffic at Sévaré as it does for a scheduled movement, delivering to the GA terminal and the FBOs on the field rather than routing that traffic through a separate line. Private jet catering here rides the same cold chain and the same paperwork as an airline uplift, including FBO catering for a same-day change of aircraft.
Private jets →
Charter flight catering reviewed at MZI
Operators on commercial aviation catering at Sévaré, Mali
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
Scheduled airline
“We requested airline meal boxes at Sévaré (MZI/GAMB) 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. Responses were quick whenever we had a question, which helped us keep the flight on schedule.”
★★★★★Private jet operator
Elif — Client Services Manager
“We used the team for ACMI at Sévaré (MZI/GAMB) during a tight turnaround. The uplift was organized around our revised departure and reached the aircraft without delaying the turn. Good support for a changing flight schedule. Updates were timely and the final delivery matched the confirmation we had from operations.”
★★★★☆Charter operator
Elias — Charter Flight Coordinator
“I ordered private jet catering for our departure from Sévaré (MZI/GAMB) and was very happy with the service. Everything was easy to check and load, and the passenger requests were prepared exactly as ordered. Reliable, responsive, and easy to work with. From an operational point of view, the service was easy to manage and required very little follow-up.”
★★★★☆Scheduled airline
Niko — Airport Operations Lead
Station data for airport catering at Sévaré (GAMB / MZI)
| Datum | Value |
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| Longest runway | 2,542 m |
| Runways | 1 |
| Aerodrome reference code | wide-body |
| ICAO | GAMB |
Business jet catering questions at GAMB / MZI
Diversion catering and ramp questions at GAMB / MZI
What operations gets asked every week about Sévaré.
Ask operations directly →When must an order be placed for GAMB, and how late can the specification still change?
When a rotation is confirmed we ask for the lead time as early as the schedule allows, though last minute airline catering can still be worked against the loading window when the change reaches us before the cart is sealed.
How is VIP, VVIP and government flight catering handled at Sévaré?
Sévaré runs government flight catering and VIP flight catering under the same protocol file logged per passenger, with security-cleared staff carrying the uplift from kitchen to stand.
What does private jet catering at Sévaré Airport cover for aircraft using the FBOs and the GA terminal?
We deliver FBO catering to the GA terminal and to the FBOs on the field on the same cold chain and paperwork as a scheduled airline uplift.
Which halal, kosher and IATA special meal codes can be produced for a movement through MZI?
The cart route through our kitchen keeps halal, kosher and the full range of SPML codes on a separate production line, sealed apart from the main tray run and documented per passenger.
Do you deliver airline catering airside at GAMB, and how does the uplift reach the aircraft?
Yes, by hi-loader straight to the galley door, with airside delivery held to our own badges rather than handed off at the ramp edge.
Can you tell me what airline catering costs at Sévaré?
Cabin count, specification and the length of the loading window are what a quotation turns on, since no price list is published; the desk comes back with a figure once those are known.
Commercial aviation catering near Sévaré
TOM / GATB
Timbuktu
Mali · 272 km from Sévaré
Airline & VIP flight catering →
OUA / DFFD
Ouagadougou
Burkina Faso · 367 km from Sévaré
Airline & VIP flight catering →
BOY / DFOO
Bobo Dioulasso
Burkina Faso · 374 km from Sévaré
Airline & VIP flight catering →
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Sévaré (MZI / GAMB)
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Four steps
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Offloading
Return leg, if any
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Contact
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Uplift at Sévaré (MZI)