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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — Cape Town, South Africa
VIP flight catering, airline catering and private jet catering at Cape Town (FACT / CPT)
CPT (IATA) · FACT (ICAO)
Cape Town holds a wide-body aerodrome reference code, which fixes how a rotation is sequenced before it is planned: the hi-loader clears the galley door at wide-body height, so uplift is boarded to the aircraft rather than staged at the foot of it. AERO GOURMET runs inflight catering, in-flight catering and aviation catering from the ramp here, with airside access held on our own badges around the clock.
3,201 m
Longest runway
Wide-body
Largest aircraft handled
2
Runways
3
FBOs on station
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 — Cape Town
Aviation catering boarded by hi-loader at Cape Town airport
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Airport catering order window at CPT
Inflight catering tracked kitchen to aircraft at FACT / CPT
Ramp access at Cape Town is what a loading plan is actually built around, because the apron sequence, not the kitchen, decides when a cart can reach the stand. Catering uplift here is timed from the seal at our kitchen to the signature at the galley door, and that interval is measured on every rotation, not assumed. The wide-body reference code sets how the hi-loader is positioned, which is the step the rest of the window depends on.
Between our kitchen and the stand at Cape Town sit screening, an escort through the ramp gate and the ordinary traffic of a working apron, and we plan the catering uplift against the worst case among them rather than the average one. Chain of custody runs on a single sheet: the load is sealed at the kitchen, logged again at the galley door, and signed off by the crew that receives it. Galley catering here means the cart that leaves our building is the cart that boards, with nothing opened and nothing substituted in between.
One coordinator owns the load from the kitchen seal to the galley signature.
Pilot meals and cabin service produced for Cape Town, South Africa
Cargo crew meals produced to the same standard at Cape Town
The flight kitchen that provisions FACT runs hot production, pastry, a cold larder and a protocol line under one roof, working to HACCP throughout so that every tray leaving the building carries the same audit trail. Airport catering at FACT is planned from that single site rather than split across several, which keeps the cold chain intact from the first sealed box to the last. Airport catering at Cape Town depends on that consolidation: one kitchen, one standard, one crew that knows the ramp.
The team that handles government flight catering at Cape Town is the same named crew on every rotation, carrying a standing security clearance and a place on the access list rather than a badge issued for the day. They are trained to royal household standards and to the paperwork a sealed uplift travels with, so a delegation is handled by people who already know the protocol file rather than by whoever is on shift. That continuity is what a protocol officer checks before anything else.
VIP flight catering and dietary sets at Cape Town airport
Royal flight catering standards per cabin at CPT
Menus at Cape Town are written to the cabin and the mission rather than to a single fixed offer, so a scheduled service, a state movement and a charter rotation each draw on a specification built for what they actually need. Inflight catering at FACT draws on produce from the surrounding region in general terms, dairy, orchard fruit and fish among them, worked into a cycle that changes with the season rather than staying fixed. From passenger meal boxes to VVIP menus, the range is set by cabin, mission and season together. Every set is labelled per passenger and per cabin against a documented allergen, halal, kosher and medical record, so what boards matches what was ordered.
First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins at Cape Town are plated to a written specification rather than improvised on the day, with caviar and à-la-carte service available on request. VIP flight catering here is filed against the standing order, so a repeat rotation receives the same presentation each time it lands.
Business cabins
Business cabins at FACT run multi-choice hot service in oven-ready formats sized to the galley fitted to the aircraft, boxed as tray sets ready to load. Crew meals at Cape Town, including cabin crew meals and pilot meals, are boxed separately to the roster rather than drawn from the passenger service.
Protocol & dietary
Protocol and dietary requirements at CPT are documented per passenger rather than assumed, covering household, religious and medical needs alongside halal and kosher sets and the full range of IATA special meal codes. Inflight catering of this kind is produced on a separate line and sealed before it leaves it, so a mixed cabin boards with no cross-over between sets.
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 Cape Town
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 Cape Town, South Africa
Cape Town takes scheduled, charter and government movements onto wide-body stands governed by the reference code held here, and that mix sets what catering has to solve for: a delegation is a documentation problem before it is a menu problem, a wave of departures is a capacity problem, and a repeat charter rotation is a repetition problem that rewards a fixed specification. Airline catering at FACT is planned against whichever of those three is on the board for the day, not against a single generic pattern.
Uplift reaches the aircraft here by hi-loader, boarded to galley height rather than left at the foot of the stand, on a route that runs from our kitchen straight onto the ramp. In-flight catering at FACT and aviation catering at CPT are worked off the same ops desk, so the loading crew that seals a cart is the crew that stands with it until the galley door closes. Airport catering at Cape Town is planned stand by stand, with ramp access held on our own badges rather than borrowed for the day.
What we commit to on this station is one coordinator per rotation, sealed carts from kitchen to galley, and a signed handover that closes the load. Inflight catering at Cape Town runs on that same commitment whether the aircraft is a scheduled service or a one-off charter.
Scheduled, charter and VVIP catering at Cape Town airport
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Government and state flight catering at FACT
A 3201 metre runway at Cape Town brings a head of state aircraft in on the same wide-body stands as scheduled traffic, and it is on those stands that government flight catering here is planned. Protocol is documented per passenger, staff are security-cleared, and the catering at FACT is sealed before it leaves the kitchen for a state visit or an official delegation.
Government & state flights →
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at CPT
A 3201 metre runway at Cape Town takes the private airliners this segment flies, BBJ, ACJ and wide-body VIP among them, without restricting the rotation to a shorter field. Royal flight catering at this station holds household standards across repeat movements, drawn from a written specification kept on file between visits, with halal and household requirements produced on request.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at Cape Town
A wide-body reference code at Cape Town lets a full three-cabin airliner load here rather than a narrower type, which is what charter flight catering at CPT is built around for ACMI and wet-lease operators. Group movements and special missions draw a full uplift counted against the loading sheet, and charter flight catering in Cape Town stages each galley in the order it is fitted.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at FACT
A 3201 metre runway at Cape Town, long enough to bring in a wide-body diversion without warning, is what makes ad hoc airline catering here a standing capability rather than an exception. Outstation catering and technical stop catering run off the same duty roster as scheduled work, with diversion catering covered on the same terms, AOG included, across a multi-leg rotation; crew meals in South Africa are boxed to the roster on every leg.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at CPT
Across the GA terminal and the stands business aviation uses at Cape Town, the same wide-body reference code that clears a scheduled airliner also clears the ramp this traffic shares. Private jet catering at FACT reaches the FBOs on the field on the same cold chain and the same paperwork as an airline uplift, handled by our dedicated branch for that segment.
Private jets →
FBOs at Cape Town
absolute aviation group
execujet aviation pty ltd
signature aviation
Inflight catering rated by operators at Cape Town (CPT)
Flight departments on jet catering at FACT
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
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Scheduled airline
“We were looking for a dependable airline catering broker in Cape Town (CPT/FACT) and the process was straightforward. One contact handled the order from confirmation through delivery, which saved our dispatch team a lot of follow-up. It made the station much easier to manage. The final handover was simple and there was nothing for the crew to correct before departure.”
★★★★★Scheduled airline
Hector — Ground Services Manager
“I arranged private jet catering in Cape Town for our departure from CPT/FACT. Communication was responsive and the team handled a late timing change without any issue. A very easy service to use at this station. Updates were timely and the final delivery matched the confirmation we had from operations.”
★★★★☆Private jet operator
Rebecca — Executive Flight Manager
“I requested SPML for passengers departing Cape Town (CPT/FACT) and the labeling was excellent. The order arrived complete and the special requests were handled with the same presentation as the regular meals. 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.”
★★★★★Charter operator
Anwar — Charter Operations Executive
Flight catering station reference for Cape Town (FACT / CPT)
| Datum | Value |
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| Longest runway | 3,201 m |
| Runways | 2 |
| Aerodrome reference code | wide-body |
| ICAO | FACT |
Airline catering services FAQ for Cape Town airport
Technical stop catering questions at Cape Town airport
What operations gets asked every week about Cape Town.
Ask operations directly →When is halal, kosher and IATA special meal catering produced for flights through CPT?
When an order carries special meal codes, halal, kosher or another SPML set, it is produced on a separate line and sealed before the rest of the uplift, then labelled per passenger against the booking.
Which FBOs and the GA terminal at FACT take private jet catering delivery?
The loader reaches every FBO on the field and the GA terminal itself, on the same cart and the same cold chain used for an airline uplift, so FBO catering here carries no separate paperwork.
Where in Cape Town is the record kept of how far in advance an order must be placed?
The specification sheet held at our kitchen is the record: how far in advance an order is opened and how late it can still change both sit against that one document, not a verbal estimate.
How much does airline catering cost at Cape Town International Airport?
Cape Town International Airport carries no published price list, because a quotation depends on cabin count, the specification chosen and the loading window booked; our desk returns a figure once those three are known.
What protocol governs VIP flight catering and government flight catering at CPT?
We run VIP, VVIP and government movements through the same security-cleared team on every rotation, with the protocol file documented per passenger before the uplift is sealed.
Can airline catering be delivered airside at FACT, and how does it reach the aircraft?
A hi-loader takes the sealed cart straight to the galley door, boarding it at aircraft height rather than leaving it at the foot of the stand, so airside delivery is the default method here, not an exception.
Commercial aviation catering near Cape Town
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Airline & VIP flight catering →
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Airline & VIP flight catering →
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Charter flight catering quote for Cape Town, South Africa
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Four steps
Flight
Aircraft · stand · local time
Offloading
Return leg, if any
Order
Counts · menus · files
Contact
Who we come back to
Uplift at Cape Town (CPT)