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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — Windhoek, Namibia
Private jet catering, VIP flight catering and airline catering at Windhoek (FYWH / WDH)
WDH (IATA) · FYWH (ICAO)
A wide-body reference code at Windhoek means a scheduled widebody, a large charter or a state aircraft boards here on the same ramp, off one flight kitchen. Inflight catering and in-flight catering move by hi-loader to galley height across the wide-body stands, with the uplift staged airside rather than dropped at the foot of the aircraft.
4,575 m
Longest runway
Wide-body
Largest aircraft handled
2
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 — Windhoek
Hi-loader aviation catering on the FYWH / WDH apron
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Inflight catering order window for Windhoek airport departures
Aviation catering from sealed cart to galley door at WDH
Ramp access at Windhoek is ours, not borrowed, so the sealed cart moves from the flight kitchen to the galley door on a route we control end to end. Every catering uplift is logged at the point it leaves the kitchen and again at the point it clears the apron. The window is held tight enough to cover a delayed slot without reopening the seal.
Between our kitchen and the stand at Windhoek sit screening, an escort through the apron and the ordinary traffic of a working ramp, and the chain of custody is planned against the worst version of all three rather than the average one. A galley catering run that meets a hold is re-sequenced, not compressed, so the seal on the cart is never the thing that gives way to save the schedule. Every catering uplift is logged at sealing and logged again at handover, and the load is closed with a signature that names the person who received it at the aircraft.
One coordinator carries the load from the sealed kitchen cart to the signature at the aircraft.
Cargo crew meals and passenger uplifts for Windhoek (WDH)
Airline food supplier crews cleared for FYWH
The flight kitchen behind Windhoek runs hot production, pastry, a cold larder and a protocol cell under one roof, built to the wide-body reference code this field is rated to rather than to a lighter aircraft mix. Airport catering here is planned around that single facility, so a scheduled rotation and a diversion draw on the same cold chain instead of a second, improvised one. Every tray set produced against a HACCP standard leaves through the same checkpoint as the airport catering built for the morning bank, whether it is bound for Namibia's own carriers or a visiting wide-body.
The coordinator named to a government flight catering movement at Windhoek stays on that rotation from the first briefing to the signature at the aircraft door, rather than handing it between shifts. Security clearance is held on file for the whole team before the file is opened, and the same people sit on the access list that governs the ramp for that day's movement. Household standards, once briefed, travel with the crew rather than being re-issued rotation by rotation, and the sealed uplift is built by people already cleared for it.
Halal airline meals and special meals at Windhoek, Namibia
VVIP catering to a written specification at Windhoek airport
Menus at Windhoek are written to the cabin and to the mission rather than to a fixed list, so a scheduled rotation, a state movement and a large charter each draw on a different tray set from the same kitchen. Inflight catering here uses produce sourced within Namibia where the season allows it, kept general to dairy, orchard fruit and fresh vegetables rather than a named farm or a single dish. Special meals, halal, kosher and the full run of allergen and medical sets are documented per passenger and per cabin, never bundled into a single generic tray. The seasonal frame changes through the year; the documentation and the labelling standard behind it do not.
First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins at Windhoek are plated to a written specification rather than to a fixed menu card, with caviar and à-la-carte service available on request for the movement it is briefed against. VIP flight catering here is filed against the standing order so a repeat rotation is served to the same standard without re-briefing the kitchen each time.
Business cabins
Business cabins at FYWH run multi-choice hot service built to cabin specification, with oven-ready formats sized to the galley fitted to the aircraft rather than a generic tray. Crew meals, cabin crew meals and pilot meals are boxed separately to the duty roster, so the flight deck and the cabin crew each receive the set built for their own rest pattern.
Protocol & dietary
Protocol and dietary requirements at WDH are documented per passenger rather than assumed, covering household, religious and medical needs alongside halal and kosher sets. Inflight catering here produces the full run of IATA special meal codes on a separate line, sealed before it leaves that line so a protocol tray never shares a cart with a standard one.
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 Windhoek 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 Windhoek
Windhoek carries a wide-body reference code across two runways, which puts a scheduled widebody, a large charter and a government aircraft on the same ramp rather than routing any of them to a secondary apron. A delegation on that ramp is a documentation problem before it is a service one, and a peak wave of arrivals is a capacity problem the kitchen plans against rather than absorbs on the day.
The uplift moves from our flight kitchen to the stand by hi-loader, boarded to galley height rather than left at the foot of the aircraft, with our own crews holding the ramp access badges for that route. Airline catering and aviation catering at WDH run off the one ops desk that also covers inflight catering and in-flight catering, so a diversion is worked by the same team as the scheduled bank.
One coordinator, sealed carts and a signed handover apply to every stand at Windhoek, and airport catering here does not vary that commitment between a routine rotation and an unplanned one.
Charter flight catering and state missions at FYWH
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Government and state flight catering at FYWH
A wide-body reference code at this field means the same apron that takes a scheduled widebody also takes a head of state aircraft, so the loading plan is built around one ramp rather than a separate one. Government flight catering at Windhoek runs 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 WDH
Two runways serve this field, and that capacity is what lets a private airliner move alongside scheduled and charter traffic without a special slot being carved out for it. Royal flight catering at Windhoek covers BBJ, ACJ and other wide-body VIP types, held to a written household specification kept on file between movements, with halal and household requirements produced on request.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at Windhoek
Our kitchen builds against the wide-body reference code held at this field, which means a full three-cabin uplift is staged for a large charter the same way it is for a scheduled carrier. Charter flight catering at Windhoek covers ACMI and wet-lease operators, group movements and special missions, with charter flight catering counted against the loading sheet in the order the galleys are laid out.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at FYWH
Two runways and a wide-body reference code put Windhoek on the routing map for carriers that treat this station as an outstation rather than a base. Ad hoc airline catering, outstation catering, diversion catering and technical stop catering run off one duty roster here, AOG included, across a multi-leg rotation without a second kitchen being briefed.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at WDH
The runway at Windhoek stretches 4575 metres, and that length is what keeps a wide-body-class business jet on the same field as the airline traffic it is provisioned alongside. Private jet catering here reaches the FBOs on the field and the GA terminal on the same cold chain as an airline uplift, with business aviation catering and business jet catering carried under the same FBO catering paperwork.
Private jets →
Inflight catering rated by operators at Windhoek
Operators on commercial aviation catering at Windhoek (WDH)
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
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Scheduled airline
“We ordered freighter crew meals for a cargo rotation through Windhoek (WDH/FYWH). The order was simple, filling, clearly labeled, and delivered in a format the crew could load without delay. Simple, efficient, and on time. From an operational point of view, the service was easy to manage and required very little follow-up.”
★★★★★Private jet operator
Naomi — Client Services Manager
“We arranged sports team flight meals for the group at Windhoek (WDH/FYWH) after a late schedule update. They handled the nutrition requests well and kept everything organized for fast distribution onboard. A good partner for sports charter operations. The order was complete on arrival and easy for us to check before closing the doors.”
★★★★★Charter operator
Celine — Charter Services Manager
“For an urgent mission at Windhoek (WDH/FYWH), the team supported us with military charter catering. The team understood that reliability mattered more than complexity and stayed flexible until uplift. Strong support for a demanding operation. The order was complete on arrival and easy for us to check before closing the doors.”
★★★★☆Scheduled airline
Dalia — Station Operations Supervisor
Airport catering data for Windhoek (FYWH / WDH)
| Datum | Value |
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| Longest runway | 4,575 m |
| Runways | 2 |
| Aerodrome reference code | wide-body |
| ICAO | FYWH |
Aircraft catering questions at FYWH
Outstation catering and access questions at Windhoek, Namibia
What operations gets asked every week about Windhoek.
Ask operations directly →When can you deliver airline catering airside at WDH?
When a stand is assigned, our crews move the uplift by hi-loader straight to the galley door rather than staging it at the foot of the aircraft, on our own airside delivery badges.
At what point does FYWH need the final specification, and how far in advance should the order go in?
The first step is the cabin count and cabin plan, taken as early as the booking allows; from there the specification can still move closer to departure than a first-time order would suggest, including a last minute airline catering change to counts or special meals.
Where does the airline catering cost for a Windhoek rotation come from, given there is no published price list?
The quotation is built from the cabin count, the menu specification and the loading window requested, and the desk returns a figure once those three are confirmed.
Are VIP flight catering and government flight catering handled under protocol at Windhoek Airport?
The same coordinator who runs a scheduled rotation runs a VIP flight catering or government flight catering movement, working from a protocol file documented per passenger and security-cleared throughout.
Does private jet catering reach the FBOs and the GA terminal at WDH?
Every FBO on the field receives the same FBO catering standard as the main terminal, on the same cold chain and the same paperwork as an airline uplift.
Who documents halal, kosher and the IATA special meal codes at FYWH?
Across every cabin and every mission type, halal, kosher and the full SPML range are produced on a separate line and labelled per passenger before they leave it.
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Windhoek (WDH / FYWH)
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Uplift at Windhoek (WDH)