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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — Ilorin/Ogbomosho, Nigeria
VIP & private jet catering with airline catering at Ilorin/Ogbomosho (DNIL / ILR)
ILR (IATA) · DNIL (ICAO)
With one wide-body reference code governing every stand at Ilorin/Ogbomosho, its 3100 m runway takes a full-size aircraft on a single loading plan, so a scheduled, charter or government rotation boards without a change of method. AERO GOURMET runs inflight catering and in-flight catering here by hi-loader to galley height, with uplift staged from our kitchen to the wide-body stand, airside, on one ops desk.
3,100 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 — Ilorin/Ogbomosho
Inflight catering loaded to galley height at DNIL
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Airport catering order window at Ilorin/Ogbomosho airport
Aircraft catering handover at the galley door, ILR
Catering at ILR is planned around ramp access rather than around a counter delivery, since the uplift is boarded directly from the apron by hi-loader instead of being handed off at the foot of the aircraft. Every cart is sealed at the kitchen and logged again at the galley door, so the sequence between the two points is measured rather than assumed. That sequencing is what lets a wide-body rotation hold its slot even when apron traffic runs against it.
Between our kitchen and the wide-body stand at Ilorin/Ogbomosho sit screening, an escorted route and apron traffic, and none of them is left to chance: we plan the catering uplift against the worst case each of them can produce on a given rotation. The chain of custody runs on one named coordinator from the moment the cart is sealed to the moment it is signed for at the galley, so responsibility never passes between hands unrecorded. Galley catering here is logged at both ends of that run, temperature taken at sealing and again at handover, with the signature that closes the load kept against the same reference as the loading sheet.
One coordinator carries the seal from our kitchen to the signature at the galley door.
Pilot meals and cabin service produced for Ilorin/Ogbomosho (ILR)
Crew meals and passenger sets from one kitchen at DNIL
Airport catering at Ilorin/Ogbomosho is built around a production kitchen that keeps hot production, pastry, a cold larder and a protocol cell under one roof, so a wide-body rotation is provisioned without splitting the order across sites. Every line runs to a written HACCP standard, with the cold chain held from the moment a tray is closed to the moment it clears the galley door. Airport catering in Nigeria is coordinated from this same facility, which is what lets the flight kitchen at ILR take on a government or royal rotation with no change to its production line.
The team assigned to government flight catering at this station is the same named crew on every rotation, not a rota drawn at random from the floor. Each member holds security clearance on file, sits on the access list for the ramp, and is trained to the household standards a royal or protocol movement expects. That continuity is what keeps the chain of custody intact between a delegation's first flight through Ilorin/Ogbomosho and its last.
Halal airline meals and special meals at Ilorin/Ogbomosho, Nigeria
Commercial aviation catering written per cabin at Ilorin/Ogbomosho (ILR)
AERO GOURMET writes its inflight catering at Ilorin/Ogbomosho to the cabin first and the mission second, so a First cabin specification and a group charter tray set never share a production line by accident. Menus draw on produce sourced within Nigeria where the season allows it, from dairy and orchard fruit to fresh fish landed locally, worked into a plan that still meets a wide-body loading window. Every set is built against a written specification rather than a fixed carte, which is what lets the same kitchen serve a VIP flight menu one week and a charter flight menu the next without renegotiating the standard. Allergen, halal, kosher and medical requirements are documented per passenger and per cabin, then produced and labelled against that same document before the cart is sealed.
First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins at Ilorin/Ogbomosho are plated to a written specification rather than a fixed carte, so VIP flight catering can move from a standing menu to caviar and à-la-carte service without renegotiating the standard. The presentation is filed against the order at DNIL and repeated the same way on the next rotation.
Business cabins
Business cabins at ILR run on multi-choice hot service built to the cabin specification, boxed into oven-ready formats sized to the galley fitted to the aircraft. Crew meals, cabin crew meals and pilot meals are boxed separately from the passenger tray sets and labelled to the roster, at Ilorin/Ogbomosho and on every leg after it.
Protocol & dietary
Protocol and dietary requirements at Ilorin/Ogbomosho are documented per passenger before the order reaches the kitchen, covering halal and kosher sets alongside the full range of IATA special meal codes. Household, religious and medical requirements are produced on a separate line and sealed before it leaves that line, which is how inflight catering here keeps a protocol movement distinct from a standard cabin order.
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 DNIL / ILR
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.
Catering uplift planned stand by stand at Ilorin/Ogbomosho
Ilorin/Ogbomosho carries a mix of scheduled, charter and government traffic across a single wide-body reference code, which means a state delegation and a group charter can both be worked to the same loading plan rather than two separate procedures. That single-stand reality turns a peak wave into a capacity problem to be sequenced and a delegation into a documentation problem to be filed in advance, not into a reason to change method.
The uplift reaches the aircraft here by hi-loader, boarded directly from the apron to the galley door rather than handed off at the foot of the aircraft, with our own coordinator on the ramp for the whole loading window. Airline catering at Ilorin/Ogbomosho runs off one ops desk that plans the route, the escort and the ground handling together rather than as separate bookings.
On every rotation we commit to one named coordinator, sealed carts logged at both ends, and a signed handover before the aircraft is released, whether the order is aviation catering at DNIL for a government movement or in-flight catering for a scheduled carrier using the same stand the next day, with inflight catering in Nigeria and airport catering in Ilorin/Ogbomosho carried on the same standard throughout.
Airline, charter and VVIP catering at DNIL
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Government and state flight catering at ILR
One wide-body stand at Ilorin/Ogbomosho, and government flight catering is held to that same single sequence rather than a separate procedure built around it. State visits and official delegations move through a protocol file documented per passenger, with security-cleared staff and the uplift sealed before it leaves the kitchen, ready for a head of state movement whenever the terminal calls for one.
Government & state flights →
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at Ilorin/Ogbomosho
Our kitchen holds a wide-body reference code specification on file for every royal household movement through Ilorin/Ogbomosho, so a repeat rotation boards to the same written standard each time rather than a fresh brief. Royal flight catering here extends to private airliners — BBJ, ACJ and wide-body VIP configurations — with royal household and halal VIP requirements produced on request and kept between movements.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at DNIL
Ilorin/Ogbomosho's wide-body reference code takes a full three-cabin charter aircraft onto the same stand used for scheduled traffic, so charter flight catering here is counted against one loading sheet rather than assembled ad hoc. ACMI and wet-lease operators, group movements and special missions are staged in the order the galleys are laid out, with charter flight catering repeated the same way across a multi-leg tour, pilgrimage or repatriation rotation.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at ILR
A single wide-body reference code at Ilorin/Ogbomosho means every scheduled and ad hoc movement is sequenced onto the same stand rather than spread across several, so the loading plan has to hold regardless of aircraft type. Ad hoc airline catering here covers outstation catering for carriers running this field as a diversion or technical-stop point, with diversion catering and technical stop catering worked off the same duty roster as scheduled service, AOG included, across a multi-leg rotation, while crew meals in Nigeria and crew meals in Ilorin/Ogbomosho travel on the same cart as the passenger sets.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at Ilorin/Ogbomosho
A wide-body reference code at this field also covers the private airliners and business aircraft that share its single stand, so private jet catering at DNIL runs on the same loading standard as an airline uplift rather than a lighter one. Delivery reaches the FBOs on the field and the GA terminal directly, with FBO catering, business aviation catering and business jet catering held to the same cold chain and the same paperwork throughout.
Private jets →
Charter flight catering trusted at Ilorin/Ogbomosho airport
Protocol officers on government flight catering at DNIL / ILR
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
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Scheduled airline
“Our flight changed at short notice and we arranged urgent airline catering at Ilorin/Ogbomosho (ILR/DNIL). Confirmation was quick, the order stayed clear despite several updates, and delivery reached the aircraft on time. Exactly what we need when operations change with very little notice. From an operational point of view, the service was easy to manage and required very little follow-up.”
★★★★☆Private jet operator
Andrei — Private Aviation Manager
“For an operation away from our normal base, we arranged off-station catering at Ilorin/Ogbomosho (ILR/DNIL). The crew received exactly what was ordered, with clear labels and no last-minute chasing from operations. Reliable and easy to manage from the ops desk. The order was complete on arrival and easy for us to check before closing the doors.”
★★★★★Charter operator
Rayan — Flight Operations Specialist
“For our flight at Ilorin/Ogbomosho (ILR/DNIL), we needed a quick airline catering cost before confirming the order. They answered our questions without overcomplicating the process and kept the final cost aligned with the confirmation. Straightforward and professional from quote to delivery. From an operational point of view, the service was easy to manage and required very little follow-up.”
★★★★☆Scheduled airline
Nora — OCC Coordinator
Flight catering station reference for Ilorin/Ogbomosho (DNIL / ILR)
| Datum | Value |
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| Longest runway | 3,100 m |
| Runways | 1 |
| Aerodrome reference code | wide-body |
| ICAO | DNIL |
Business jet catering questions at Ilorin/Ogbomosho, Nigeria
Diversion catering and ramp questions at Ilorin/Ogbomosho, Nigeria
What operations gets asked every week about Ilorin/Ogbomosho.
Ask operations directly →When does airline catering cost get confirmed for DNIL?
When the cabin count, the specification and the loading window are set, the desk returns a quotation built on those three factors rather than a published price list; airline catering cost at this station is never fixed in advance of the brief.
Whose lead time governs an order into Ilorin/Ogbomosho?
For a standard rotation the lead time follows the cabin specification agreed with the desk, and across a confirmed booking a specification can still change closer to departure than most stations allow, right up to the point the kitchen seals the cart; last minute airline catering is handled through the same ops desk rather than a separate process.
Is private jet catering delivered to the FBOs at Ilorin/Ogbomosho airport?
The coordinator on shift routes every order to the FBOs on the field and to the GA terminal directly, so private jet catering and FBO catering reach the aircraft on the same cold chain as an airline uplift, with no separate procedure for business aviation.
Which method gets airline catering onto the aircraft at ILR?
The hi-loader carries the sealed cart from our kitchen straight to the galley door, so airside delivery replaces a stand-side handover on every rotation; hi-loader boarding is the standard method here, not an exception requested in advance.
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Uplift at Ilorin/Ogbomosho (ILR)