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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — Dakar, Senegal
Airline catering, VIP flight catering and private jet catering at Dakar (GOOY / DKR)
DKR (IATA) · GOOY (ICAO)
Our kitchen holds a wide-body reference code and stages a full three-cabin uplift for the aircraft this rating clears, boarded by hi-loader to galley height rather than left at the foot of the aircraft. We run inflight catering, in-flight catering in Dakar and aviation catering off one ops desk, with airside coordination and inflight catering at DKR held to the same standard on every rotation.
3,490 m
Longest runway
Wide-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 — Dakar
Hi-loader aviation catering on the Dakar airport apron
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Aviation catering lead times and loading window at GOOY
Aircraft catering sealed from kitchen to galley at Dakar
Our crews plan the loading window at this station from the seal at the kitchen to the signature at the aircraft, treating ramp access as the constraint that decides the sequence, not an afterthought once the cart is on the apron. Every catering uplift moves under one coordinator across that same ground, whatever the cabin count on the manifest. GOOY's wide-body rating sets how far the hi-loader travels once cleared onto the apron, and the window is built around that distance rather than around the kitchen alone.
Between our kitchen and the wide-body stands at Dakar sit screening, an airside escort and apron traffic that moves on its own schedule, and every catering uplift here is planned against the worst of the three rather than the average day. GOOY's single runway concentrates that traffic into fewer windows, so the galley catering convoy is timed to the gap rather than fitted around it after the fact. Temperature is logged when the load is sealed at the kitchen and again at handover to the crew, and the sheet that closes each load carries a signature on both sides, forming a chain of custody the aircraft can be boarded against.
One coordinator carries the load from the kitchen seal to the aircraft signature.
Pilot meals and cabin service produced for Dakar, Senegal
Cargo crew meals produced to the same standard at DKR
Our production kitchen provisions this station with hot production, pastry, a cold larder and a protocol cell run under one roof, built to hold a wide-body-scale rotation rather than a single outstation order. Airport catering at GOOY runs on HACCP-standard production lines, with the cold chain held from the moment a tray is sealed to the moment it clears the galley door at Dakar. Airport catering in Senegal at this flight kitchen at DKR is staffed to produce First, Business and main cabin sets in parallel, not in sequence, so a full three-cabin load leaves the kitchen together.
The team handling government flight catering at this kitchen is the same named crew on every rotation, carrying security clearance on file and a place on the access list rather than being rostered in ad hoc. That crew is trained to royal household standards and to the paperwork a sealed uplift travels with, so a protocol file moves with the load and not behind it. Catering at GOOY is signed off by that same crew at both ends of the chain of custody, from kitchen seal to aircraft handover.
VIP flight catering and dietary sets at Dakar (DKR)
Royal flight catering standards per cabin at GOOY
Menus here are written to the cabin and to the mission rather than to a fixed set list, moving from passenger meal boxes for a full main-cabin load to a plated VIP flight menu for a head-of-state movement on the same day. Inflight catering in Dakar draws on regional produce where the season allows it, working dairy, fish and orchard fruit into the specification without naming a single dish or supplier on the sheet. Charter flight menus are built around the rotation length rather than a single leg, so a multi-leg movement carries a consistent standard from the first sector to the last. Every dietary and religious requirement is logged per passenger and per cabin, so an allergen, halal or kosher set travels labelled rather than assumed.
First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins at Dakar carry VIP flight catering plated to a written specification kept on file between movements, with caviar and à-la-carte service available on request rather than fixed to a set menu. The same specification governs a single head-of-state seat or a full VVIP flight catering in Senegal cabin, so presentation is checked against the standing order before it ever reaches the aircraft.
Business cabins
Business cabins at GOOY run multi-choice hot service to a cabin specification, in oven-ready formats sized to the galley fitted to the aircraft on the stand. Crew meals at Dakar and pilot meals travel in their own tray sets, and cabin crew meals are boxed to the roster rather than pooled with the passenger load, so crew meals at DKR clear the galley separately from the cabin service.
Protocol & dietary
Protocol and dietary requirements at this station are documented per passenger before the load is built, covering household, religious and medical sets alongside the full range of IATA special meal codes. Halal and kosher trays are produced on a separate line and sealed before it leaves that line, so inflight catering at Dakar keeps every dietary set traceable back to the passenger it was written 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 compliance at Dakar
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 GOOY / DKR
GOOY carries scheduled, charter and government traffic across a single runway, which concentrates arrivals into fewer windows and turns a delegation into a documentation problem as much as a loading one. A peak wave here is a capacity problem first, so airline catering at this station is planned against the tightest window on the schedule rather than the average one.
The uplift moves from our kitchen to the wide-body stand under airside delivery, escorted across the ramp access this station holds for a cleared load, with our own coordinator on the apron rather than a handover at the perimeter. Inflight catering in Senegal and in-flight catering in Senegal both run off that same ramp routing, and aviation catering in Senegal is staged to the stand assignment rather than to a fixed bay.
One coordinator signs the load at the kitchen and again at the aircraft, so airport catering at DKR and inflight catering at GOOY close on a single handover rather than a chain of separate signatures.
Scheduled, charter and VVIP catering at Dakar airport
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Government and state flight catering at GOOY
A head of state aircraft on a wide-body airframe is one of the movements this reference code clears to stand here, and government flight catering for that movement runs on a protocol file documented per passenger rather than a standard manifest. Security-cleared staff seal the uplift before it leaves the kitchen, and the same file travels with the load through to the dedicated terminal used for this traffic.
Government & state flights →
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at DKR
Across a 3490-metre runway, this station clears private airliners at wide-body scale, which is the airframe class that royal flight catering and VVIP movements here are built around. BBJ, ACJ and wide-body VIP aircraft are boarded to a written household specification kept on file between movements, with halal and other household dietary requirements produced against that same specification rather than requested fresh each time.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at Dakar
A single runway means every charter movement is sequenced against the same slot pattern that scheduled traffic uses, so charter flight catering here is staged to the loading sheet rather than to a fixed bay. ACMI and wet-lease operators, group movements and multi-leg special missions receive a full three-cabin uplift counted against that sheet, with charter flight catering at DKR and charter flight catering at GOOY held to one tray standard across the rotation.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at GOOY
GOOY's wide-body reference code lets this station take the same aircraft that scheduled carriers run on trunk routes, which is what makes ad hoc airline catering possible here rather than only a fixed weekly order. Carriers running this station as an outstation draw on outstation catering, diversion catering and technical stop catering off one duty roster, with crew meals at GOOY boxed alongside the passenger load across a multi-leg rotation.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at DKR
This station's wide-body reference code sets the stand and taxi routing that business aviation shares with scheduled traffic, and private jet catering in Dakar is delivered into that same routing rather than a separate lane. Our private-jet branch reaches the FBOs on the field and the GA terminal with FBO catering, business aviation catering and business jet catering on the same cold chain and paperwork as an airline uplift.
Private jets →
Charter flight catering trusted at GOOY
Protocol teams on VVIP catering at Dakar airport
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
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Scheduled airline
“For a last-minute requirement at Dakar (DKR/GOOY), we contacted them as our airline catering partner. One contact handled the order from confirmation through delivery, which saved our dispatch team a lot of follow-up. We would use the service again without hesitation. Responses were quick whenever we had a question, which helped us keep the flight on schedule.”
★★★★★Charter operator
Antoine — Charter Operations Executive
“We used the service for VIP flight catering in Dakar on a VIP rotation through DKR/GOOY. The menu selection was good and all special requests were clearly identified. I would use them again for another flight from Dakar. The final handover was simple and there was nothing for the crew to correct before departure.”
★★★★★Scheduled airline
Boris — Station Services Coordinator
“Our passenger profile required kosher airline meals at Dakar (DKR/GOOY), with several different dietary restrictions. The team confirmed the dietary details carefully and there was no confusion when the order arrived. We were happy with the accuracy of the order. From an operational point of view, the service was easy to manage and required very little follow-up.”
★★★★☆Private jet operator
Anas — Flight Support Executive
Airport catering facts for Dakar (GOOY / DKR)
| Datum | Value |
|---|---|
| Longest runway | 3,490 m |
| Runways | 1 |
| Aerodrome reference code | wide-body |
| ICAO | GOOY |
Business jet catering questions at Dakar (DKR)
Diversion catering and ramp questions at Dakar (DKR)
What operations gets asked every week about Dakar.
Ask operations directly →DKR — how much does airline catering cost at this station?
The hi-loader and the cart it carries set the baseline, then the quotation moves with cabin count, specification and the loading window you need; we publish no fixed price list, so the desk comes back with a figure once those three are set.
How far in advance does GOOY need the order, and how late can the specification change?
GOOY works to a lead time set by the loading window rather than a fixed cut-off, and how far in advance you confirm decides how late the specification can still move before the cart is sealed; last minute airline catering is handled against that same window rather than refused outright.
Can Dakar produce halal, kosher and the IATA special meal codes?
A single tray line at our kitchen is kept for halal, kosher and the full set of SPML codes, and each one is documented per passenger before the special meals leave that line for the aircraft.
Under what protocol does Dakar handle VIP, VVIP and government flights?
There is a standing protocol file that travels with every VIP flight catering and government flight catering movement here, carrying the security clearance and household paperwork the crew works to rather than a generic manifest.
Do you deliver private jet catering to the FBOs and the GA terminal at DKR?
Yes, on the same cold chain and paperwork as an airline uplift, reaching the FBOs on the field and the GA terminal without a separate routing or a separate standard.
How late can airline catering be delivered airside at GOOY, and how does it reach the aircraft?
The wide-body rating held at GOOY is what airside delivery and hi-loader boarding are cleared against, so the uplift is boarded straight to galley height rather than left at the foot of the aircraft.
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Charter flight catering quote for GOOY / DKR
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Dakar (DKR / GOOY)
Give us the aircraft and what goes on board. A coordinator comes back with a quote for Dakar, 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 Dakar (DKR)