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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — Tahoua, Niger
Tahoua (DRRT / THZ): airline catering, VIP flight catering and private jet catering
THZ (IATA) · DRRT (ICAO)
With a 2150 m runway rated to the narrow-body reference code, Tahoua boards scheduled, charter, VIP and government movements through one ramp desk rather than a rota of subcontractors. In-flight catering here runs on hi-loader access straight to galley height, so inflight catering at THZ and inflight catering in Niger are staged, sealed and boarded without ever touching the tarmac at the foot of the aircraft.
2,150 m
Longest runway
Narrow-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 — Tahoua
Inflight catering at wide-body scale for DRRT / THZ
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Airport catering order window at Tahoua, Niger
Flight catering sealed and logged to the stand at Tahoua airport
Per rotation, the catering uplift at Tahoua moves from a sealed cart at our kitchen to the galley door on ramp access held under our own clearance. Nothing is set down at the foot of the aircraft: the hi-loader carries the load straight to the cabin, and the apron crossing is escorted rather than left to a general handler. The route is fixed before departure, not improvised against the stand once the aircraft is in.
Between our kitchen and the stand at Tahoua, the risk sits in the convoy, not in the galley catering itself: screening, escort and apron traffic are what a rotation actually has to clear.
We plan the catering uplift against the worst case on that route rather than the average one, so a delay on the apron never becomes a delay at the galley door.
Every cart is sealed at the kitchen and the seal is checked again at handover, with the temperature logged at both ends and a signature closing the chain of custody before the load leaves our hands.
One coordinator carries the load from our seal to the signature at the aircraft.
Airline food supplier for DRRT / THZ rotations
Pilot meals and cleared production crews for Tahoua (THZ)
The flight kitchen provisioning Tahoua runs hot production, pastry, a cold larder and a protocol line under one roof, built to HACCP standard from intake to load-out. Airport catering in Tahoua and airport catering in Niger both draw on that single facility rather than a scatter of subcontracted sites. Cold chain is held from the moment a tray is sealed to the moment it clears the galley door at THZ.
The team behind government flight catering at DRRT is a named crew on every rotation, not a rotating pool: security clearance on file, kept on the access list, and trained to the paperwork a sealed uplift travels with. That standing roster is what lets a delegation movement and a scheduled service run through the same kitchen without either being treated as an exception. Catering at DRRT is signed off by the same hands each time protocol work is on the board.
Halal airline meals and special meals at Tahoua
Royal flight catering standards per cabin at Tahoua, Niger
AERO GOURMET writes menus to the cabin, the mission and the season rather than to a single fixed list, so a scheduled service and a state movement through Tahoua draw on the same kitchen without either being treated as the exception. Produce from the wider Sahel region — grains, dairy, orchard fruit in season — sits alongside menus built for longer sectors and for shorter regional hops alike. Every dietary and religious requirement is documented per passenger and per cabin, filed against the load before it ever reaches the ramp. Inflight catering in Tahoua is planned this way whether the manifest carries twelve names or two hundred.
First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins routed through Tahoua are plated to a written specification, with à-la-carte and caviar service available on request rather than fixed to a single set list. VIP flight catering in Niger is filed against the standing order, so the presentation on a repeat rotation matches the one before it.
Business cabins
Business cabins at THZ take multi-choice hot service in oven-ready formats sized to the galley fitted to the aircraft, boxed as tray sets rather than plated individually. Crew meals at THZ, cabin crew meals and pilot meals travel separately from the passenger load, and crew meals in Tahoua are boxed to the roster rather than the manifest.
Protocol & dietary
Household, religious and medical requirements at DRRT are documented per passenger, with halal and kosher sets and the full range of IATA special meal codes produced on a dedicated line and sealed before it leaves that line. Inflight catering at THZ carries every one of those sets through the same chain of custody as the standard load, never as an afterthought added at the stand.
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
Food safety and cold chain for aviation catering at Tahoua 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 DRRT
Tahoua carries scheduled, charter and government traffic across a single narrow-body-rated runway, and that mix sets the catering plan: a delegation movement is a documentation problem before it is a kitchen problem, and a peak wave of departures is a capacity problem the kitchen has to absorb without slipping the loading sheet. Airline catering in Tahoua is planned against whichever of those two pressures the day's board actually carries.
The uplift travels from our kitchen to the stand under our own ramp access, loaded by hi-loader straight to galley height rather than set down at the foot of the aircraft. Aviation catering at DRRT, in-flight catering at DRRT and inflight catering at DRRT all move on that same route, with our crew on the apron rather than handed to a general contractor at the last stand.
On every rotation through this station, one coordinator owns the load from the kitchen seal to the signature at the aircraft door.
VVIP catering and commercial flights at Tahoua (THZ)
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Government and state flight catering at Tahoua
One runway rated to the narrow-body code, and every state movement through it is planned around that single line rather than a choice of stands. Government flight catering at Tahoua covers delegations and official movements with the protocol file documented per passenger, security-cleared staff on the load, and the uplift for any head of state aircraft sealed before it leaves the kitchen.
Government & state flights →
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at DRRT
Our kitchen holds one written household specification on file between movements, and that file is what a repeat rotation through Tahoua is checked against rather than rebuilt each time. Royal flight catering at DRRT extends to private airliners — BBJ, ACJ, wide-body VIP — with royal household dietary requirements and halal VVIP sets produced on request under the same protocol line.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at THZ
A single narrow-body-rated runway takes the group charters, ACMI rotations and special missions that route through Tahoua on one stand rather than a choice of several. Charter flight catering at THZ and charter flight catering at Tahoua cover ACMI and wet-lease operators alike, with a full three-cabin uplift counted against the loading sheet and staged in the order the galleys are laid out on a multi-leg schedule.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at Tahoua
A 2150 m runway rated to the narrow-body reference code means a rotation through Tahoua is sequenced tightly against the loading sheet rather than left to spare time on the stand. Ad hoc airline catering at DRRT covers carriers running this station as an outstation, with outstation catering in Niger, diversion catering and technical stop catering all worked off the same duty roster, AOG included, across a multi-leg rotation, and crew meals at DRRT and crew meals at Tahoua boxed to the same roster.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at DRRT
A business jet cleared onto the narrow-body-rated runway at Tahoua is worked from the same GA apron as any other arrival on this field. Private jet catering in Niger is delivered to the FBOs on the field and the GA terminal by our dedicated branch, on the same cold chain and paperwork as an airline uplift, with FBO catering held to that one standard whichever apron the aircraft parks on.
Private jets →
Charter flight catering reviewed at Tahoua
Flight departments on jet catering at DRRT / THZ
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
Scheduled airline
“Our sports movement through Tahoua (THZ/DRRT) required sports team charter catering on a tight schedule. The meals were clearly labeled, portions were suitable for the group, and the delivery stayed on time despite a moving departure. Very practical for team and group charter work. That made the turnaround easier for both the flight crew and the team on the ground.”
★★★★★Private jet operator
Ibrahim — VIP Charter Manager
“For an urgent mission at Tahoua (THZ/DRRT), the team supported us with repatriation flight catering. The team understood that reliability mattered more than complexity and stayed flexible until uplift. A good experience under difficult timing conditions. The order was complete on arrival and easy for us to check before closing the doors.”
★★★★☆Government flight department
Viktor — Mission Operations Manager
“We ordered cargo crew meals for a cargo rotation through Tahoua (THZ/DRRT). The crew received the correct quantities and the handover was quick, which is exactly what we needed. We would use them again for another cargo sector. That made the turnaround easier for both the flight crew and the team on the ground.”
★★★★☆Charter operator
Yulia — Ad Hoc Operations Manager
Aircraft catering station data for Tahoua (DRRT / THZ)
| Datum | Value |
|---|---|
| Longest runway | 2,150 m |
| Runways | 1 |
| Aerodrome reference code | narrow-body |
| ICAO | DRRT |
Business jet catering questions at Tahoua
Diversion catering and ramp questions at Tahoua
What operations gets asked every week about Tahoua.
Ask operations directly →Whose figures set the cost of airline catering in Tahoua?
For every quotation, the cost turns on cabin count, the specification chosen and the loading window booked; we publish no fixed price list, and the desk comes back with a written figure once those three are set.
DRRT — are halal, kosher and the IATA special meal codes produced here?
The sealed cart carrying the uplift includes halal and kosher sets and the full range of SPML codes whenever they are booked, each one documented per passenger before it leaves the kitchen.
At which point does VIP, VVIP and government flight catering at THZ enter protocol?
The protocol file is opened at booking, before the specification is written, so VIP flight catering and government flight catering both run under the same documented clearance from the first order.
The loading window is the constraint most rotations plan around — how far ahead does an order need to be placed at DRRT?
There is a standing lead time for a full specification, and there is a shorter one for a last minute airline catering change once the loading window is confirmed.
How far does private jet catering reach across the field at Tahoua?
The clearance our crews hold covers the FBOs on the field and the GA terminal alike, so FBO catering runs on the same cold chain and paperwork as any airline uplift on this station.
Commercial aviation catering near Tahoua
SKO / DNSO
Sokoto
Nigeria · 218 km from Tahoua
Airline & VIP flight catering →
MFQ / DRRM
Maradi
Niger · 252 km from Tahoua
Airline & VIP flight catering →
DKA / DNKT
Katsina
Nigeria · 332 km from Tahoua
Airline & VIP flight catering →
Airline catering quote for DRRT
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Tahoua (THZ / DRRT)
Give us the aircraft and what goes on board. A coordinator comes back with a quote for Tahoua, not a brochure.
orders@aerogourmet.com · operations desk, 24/7
Four steps
Flight
Aircraft · stand · local time
Offloading
Return leg, if any
Order
Counts · menus · files
Contact
Who we come back to
Uplift at Tahoua (THZ)