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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — Mocímboa da Praia, Mozambique
Airline catering, VIP & private jet catering at Mocímboa da Praia (FQMP / MZB)
MZB (IATA) · FQMP (ICAO)
A 2000 m runway sets what Mocímboa da Praia can turn around, and it governs how every uplift is planned for the single narrow-body stand this field works. AERO GOURMET provides inflight catering, in-flight catering and wide-body-grade discipline scaled to this apron, boarding by hi-loader to galley height for scheduled, charter, VIP, government and private jet movements.
2,000 m
Longest runway
Narrow-body
Largest aircraft handled
1
Runways
02
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 — Mocímboa da Praia
Inflight catering loaded to galley height at Mocímboa da Praia
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Inflight catering order window at MZB
Flight catering sealed and logged to the stand at FQMP / MZB
What happens between our kitchen and the aircraft at Mocímboa da Praia is sequenced, not improvised: a sealed cart clears ramp access, crosses the apron and reaches the galley door on a single fixed route. The narrow-body stand leaves no room for a second routing, so the convoy timing is set once and held on every rotation. Catering uplift here is planned against that one path rather than against a choice of stands.
Between our kitchen and the stand at Mocímboa da Praia sit screening, an escort and the apron traffic that shares the single runway's arrival and departure banks. We plan galley catering against the busiest of those windows rather than the average one, because a delay on the ramp has nowhere else to go on this field. Chain of custody starts at the seal and does not break until the load is signed for at the aircraft. Every catering uplift carries a temperature log opened at sealing and closed again at handover, with the escort's record filed alongside it.
One coordinator carries the seal from our kitchen to the signature at the galley door.
Airline food supplier for FQMP rotations
Cargo crew meals produced to the same standard at Mocímboa da Praia
The flight kitchen provisioning Mocímboa da Praia runs hot production, a cold larder and a protocol line under one roof, built to feed a narrow-body rotation rather than a queue of wide-bodies. Airport catering here is planned around that single stand, and airport catering output is sequenced so nothing waits longer than the loading window allows. HACCP governs every stage from intake to sealed cart, whether the load is a scheduled sector or a government movement through Mozambique.
The team that handles government flight catering at Mocímboa da Praia is the same named crew on every rotation, carrying security clearance on file and named on the access list for the stand. They are trained to household service standards and to the paperwork a sealed uplift travels with, from seal to signature. Catering at MZB moves through no other hands between the kitchen and the aircraft.
Halal airline meals and special meals at Mocímboa da Praia airport
VVIP catering to a written specification at MZB
Menus at Mocímboa da Praia are written to the cabin and to the mission, from a single narrow-body configuration to a government or VIP charter routed through the same stand. Mozambique's coastal produce, orchard fruit and dairy inform the general sourcing brief without naming a supplier or a dish, and the specification travels with the load rather than being improvised at the stand. Inflight catering at Mocímboa da Praia is planned per passenger, per cabin and per meal code, whatever the operator behind the booking. Allergen, halal, kosher and medical sets are documented and labelled before the cart is sealed, not adjusted after boarding.
First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP work at Mocímboa da Praia (MZB) is plated to a written specification, with à-la-carte service on request for the forward cabin. VIP flight catering here is filed against the standing order rather than composed on the day, so a repeat rotation receives the same presentation every time.
Business cabins
Business cabins at FQMP receive multi-choice hot service in galley-ready tray sets, sized to the fitted galley rather than to a generic format. Crew meals, cabin crew meals and pilot meals are boxed separately against the roster, so the flight deck and the cabin crew each receive their own set.
Protocol & dietary
Halal and kosher sets, alongside the full range of IATA special meal codes, are produced at Mocímboa da Praia in Mocímboa da Praia on a line kept apart from the main production run. Inflight catering documented this way travels sealed and labelled per passenger, so a household or medical requirement is never left to be resolved at the door.
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 compliance at Mocímboa da Praia (MZB)
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.
Aviation catering delivered to the stand at FQMP / MZB
Mocímboa da Praia works a mixed traffic profile off its single narrow-body stand, so a scheduled sector, a charter and an occasional government movement all compete for the same slot rather than for a choice of gates. That single-stand reality turns every uplift into a sequencing problem before it is a menu problem, and the loading plan is built around the runway's one arrival-departure cycle rather than around a terminal of options.
The uplift reaches the aircraft by hi-loader to galley height, with our own crew escorting the sealed cart across the apron from kitchen to stand. Airside delivery is held to the same route on every rotation because the field offers no alternative one, and that constraint is treated as a fixed input to the schedule rather than a variable. Inflight catering, in-flight catering and aviation catering at MZB run off one ops desk that tracks the single stand rather than a bank of them.
We commit to one named coordinator per rotation, a sealed cart at every handover and a signed record closing the load: airport catering in Mocímboa da Praia is planned stand by stand, on our own badges, with airline catering at MZB following the same signed chain whatever the mission.
Commercial aviation catering and VVIP missions at Mocímboa da Praia
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Government and state flight catering at FQMP
At Mocímboa da Praia, the single narrow-body stand becomes the point where every delegation movement is planned, because there is no second gate to fall back on. Government flight catering here documents the protocol file per passenger, puts only security-cleared staff on the load, and seals the uplift before it leaves the kitchen for any head of state movement or official visit.
Government & state flights →
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at MZB
Working a single narrow-body stand means every royal or VVIP movement through Mocímboa da Praia has to be sequenced around the same runway cycle as the rest of the day's traffic, with no separate apron to absorb it. Royal flight catering here holds household and royal specifications on file between movements, covering private airliners and VVIP configurations with halal and household requirements produced on request.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at Mocímboa da Praia
2000 metres of runway is enough to bring a charter or ACMI operator through Mocímboa da Praia's single stand, but it fixes the loading sequence to one slot rather than a choice of them. Charter flight catering here covers wet-lease operators and group movements with a full three-cabin uplift, counted against the loading sheet and staged to the order the galleys are laid out, with charter flight catering at FQMP following the same sheet on every rotation.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at FQMP
A narrow-body operating this single stand as an outstation still needs the same discipline a wide-body network demands elsewhere, and the reference code held here is what makes that possible on one runway. Ad hoc airline catering at MZB covers outstation catering, diversion catering and technical stop catering off one duty roster, AOG included, with crew meals at MZB and crew meals at FQMP boxed to the same roster across a multi-leg rotation.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at MZB
Our crews work the same 2000 m runway that scheduled and charter traffic uses when a business aircraft calls at Mocímboa da Praia, routing its uplift through the GA terminal rather than a dedicated wide-body ramp. Private jet catering at MZB reaches the FBOs on the field on the same cold chain and the same paperwork as an airline uplift, business aviation catering included, business jet catering included, and FBO catering handled without a change of standard.
Private jets →
Charter flight catering trusted at MZB
Flight departments on jet catering at FQMP
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
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Scheduled airline
“We needed an airline ops catering supplier at Mocímboa da Praia (MZB/FQMP) and the support was excellent. They coordinated locally, sent useful updates, and kept the final uplift aligned with our revised schedule. It made the station much easier to manage. The order was complete on arrival and easy for us to check before closing the doors.”
★★★★☆Charter operator
Jamal — Airline Cargo Coordinator
“We used the service for VIP flight catering in Mocímboa da Praia on a VIP rotation through MZB/FQMP. Communication was responsive and the team handled a late timing change without any issue. I would use them again for another flight from Mocímboa da Praia. Responses were quick whenever we had a question, which helped us keep the flight on schedule.”
★★★★★Scheduled airline
Antonio — Aviation Services Coordinator
“We had several special meal codes on our order at Mocímboa da Praia (MZB/FQMP) and everything was handled correctly. The order arrived complete and the special requests were handled with the same presentation as the regular meals. Very reassuring for the cabin crew. Responses were quick whenever we had a question, which helped us keep the flight on schedule.”
★★★★★Scheduled airline
Kenji — Airport Operations Lead
Airport catering reference for Mocímboa da Praia (FQMP / MZB)
| Datum | Value |
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| Longest runway | 2,000 m |
| Runways | 1 |
| Aerodrome reference code | narrow-body |
| ICAO | FQMP |
Business jet catering questions at Mocímboa da Praia airport
Diversion catering and ramp questions at Mocímboa da Praia airport
What operations gets asked every week about Mocímboa da Praia.
Ask operations directly →Is airline catering cost fixed at Mocímboa da Praia?
Our coordinator prices each quotation against cabin count, specification and the loading window rather than a published rate, since airline catering cost depends on the mission booked at this station.
At which point are halal, kosher and special meal codes confirmed for Mocímboa da Praia International Airport?
The step that comes first is the meal-code confirmation at booking, when halal, kosher and SPML requests are logged and passed to a separate production line before the cart is sealed.
Where does the uplift clear onto the aircraft at MZB?
The temperature log and the escort record together prove the route: airline catering is delivered by airside delivery, boarded to the galley door by hi-loader rather than left at the foot of the aircraft.
How far ahead must an order be placed for FQMP, and how late can it still change?
The clearance held by our named coordinator sets the standard: lead time follows the loading window agreed at booking, and how far in advance a change can be made depends on how close the rotation is to that window, including last minute airline catering requests.
Does Mocímboa da Praia handle VIP, VVIP and government flight catering under protocol?
Every movement of that kind is handled by the same named, cleared crew, with VIP flight catering and government flight catering documented per passenger under a fixed protocol file.
Who reaches the FBOs and the GA terminal at Mocímboa da Praia International Airport?
For every business aircraft on the field, private jet catering and FBO catering are delivered on the same cold chain and paperwork as an airline uplift, without exception by operator.
Outstation catering near Mocímboa da Praia
MUD / FQMD
Mueda
Mozambique · 93 km from Mocímboa da Praia
Airline & VIP flight catering →
MYW / HTMT
Mtwara
Tanzania · 116 km from Mocímboa da Praia
Airline & VIP flight catering →
POL / FQPB
Pemba
Mozambique · 182 km from Mocímboa da Praia
Airline & VIP flight catering →
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Uplift at Mocímboa da Praia (MZB)