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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — Durban, South Africa
Airline catering, VIP flight catering and private jet catering — Durban (FALE / DUR)
DUR (IATA) · FALE (ICAO)
The wide-body reference code held at Durban means the ramp is built for large-cabin aircraft, and the kitchen behind it is built to match: hot production, pastry and a cold larder feeding hi-loader boarding to galley height. AERO GOURMET runs inflight catering, in-flight catering and aviation catering here for scheduled, charter, VIP, government and private jet flights, with inflight catering in South Africa and in-flight catering in South Africa coordinated through one ops desk, 24 hours a day.
3,700 m
Longest runway
Wide-body
Largest aircraft handled
1
Runways
1
FBO 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 — Durban
Hi-loader boarding for inflight catering at Durban airport
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Aviation catering lead times and loading window at FALE / DUR
Aviation catering from sealed cart to galley door at Durban (DUR)
Ramp access at DUR is booked before the cart is sealed, so the catering uplift moves on its own clearance rather than queueing behind general traffic. Every rotation at Durban is worked on the apron side of the fence, cart by cart, with the loading crew already briefed on the stand sequence. That order is what turns a wide-body turnaround into a repeatable schedule rather than a guess.
Between our kitchen and the stand at FALE sit screening, an escort through the apron gate and the ordinary traffic of a working ramp, and we plan the galley catering uplift against the busiest version of that route rather than the easiest one. A driver assigned to the load stays with it from seal to handover, so the chain of custody never passes through a second pair of hands. Temperature is logged when the cart is sealed at the kitchen and again when it is signed for at the aircraft, and that catering uplift record travels with the paperwork, not as an afterthought.
One seal, one escort, one signature: the load is accountable from kitchen to galley door.
Airline food supplier kitchen serving Durban
Pilot meals and cleared production crews for Durban, South Africa
The flight kitchen behind Durban runs hot production, pastry, a cold larder and a protocol line under one roof, built to HACCP standard and organised so a wide-body rotation moves through in sequence rather than in a rush. Airport catering at FALE is planned from that single site, which is also how airport catering in Durban keeps a repeat rotation on the same specification week after week. The same production line feeds the flight kitchen at DUR whether the cabin count is one aircraft or several across a peak wave.
The team that handles government flight catering at Durban is the same named crew on every rotation, carried on the access list and cleared for security clearance checks before they reach airside. They work to royal household standards on protocol movements and to a written chain of custody on every sealed uplift, so the paperwork travels with the cart rather than behind it. That continuity is what keeps a delegation, a repeat charter or a scheduled carrier on the same handling standard at this station.
VIP flight catering menus for DUR departures
Royal flight catering standards per cabin at FALE / DUR
Menus at Durban are written to the cabin, the mission and the season, moving from passenger meal boxes for a scheduled rotation to a full VIP flight menu for a government or charter movement. Local sourcing draws on South African produce where the season allows it, kept general rather than tied to a single supplier: dairy, fish and orchard fruit worked into a specification rather than a fixed dish. Special meals are documented per passenger and per cabin, covering allergen, halal, kosher and medical sets against the same standing order that governs the rest of the tray set. Inflight catering at DUR is written this way on every rotation, whether the aircraft is on a scheduled turn or a one-off charter.
First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins at Durban are plated to a written specification, with caviar and à-la-carte service available on request and filed against the standing order for the rotation. VIP flight catering at DUR is produced on the same protocol line as government and royal movements, so the presentation is repeatable across every leg of a multi-leg schedule.
Business cabins
Business cabins at FALE run a multi-choice hot service built to cabin specification, boxed in oven-ready formats sized to the galley fitted to the aircraft. Crew meals at DUR and crew meals at FALE travel as separate tray sets, with cabin crew meals and pilot meals boxed to the roster rather than pooled with the passenger load.
Protocol & dietary
Protocol and dietary requirements at Durban are documented per passenger, covering household, religious and medical sets alongside halal and kosher production and the full range of IATA special meal codes. Each set is produced on a separate line and sealed before it leaves the kitchen, and inflight catering at FALE carries that documentation with the tray set rather than as a separate note.
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
HACCP standards for aviation catering at Durban
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 Durban airport
Durban carries scheduled, charter, VIP and government traffic across a single wide-body reference code, and that mix turns catering into three different problems at once: a delegation is a documentation problem, a peak wave is a capacity problem, and a repeat rotation is a repetition problem the specification has to survive unchanged. Airline catering at DUR is planned against whichever of those three is on the ramp that day, with aviation catering at FALE run off the same duty roster regardless of the customer type.
The uplift reaches the aircraft here by hi-loader, boarded directly to galley height rather than left at the foot of the aircraft, with ground handling on the apron covering the stand approach. In-flight catering in Durban and inflight catering at Durban share that same route, and airport catering in South Africa is planned stand by stand rather than as a single network schedule.
On this station we commit to one coordinator per rotation, sealed carts from kitchen to stand, and a signed handover at the aircraft.
VVIP catering alongside scheduled flights at Durban airport
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Government and state flight catering at DUR
A 3700 metre runway at Durban takes the aircraft types a state visit or an official delegation typically flies, which is what puts government flight catering on this station's roster rather than routed elsewhere. Protocol is documented per passenger, staff carry a standing security clearance, and a head of state movement is boarded from a sealed uplift with the paperwork closed before it leaves the kitchen, all worked through catering at FALE on the same access list every time.
Government & state flights →
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at Durban
Private airliners in the BBJ, ACJ and wide-body VIP class are boarded at Durban on the same wide-body reference code that covers a scheduled widebody, which is what makes a household movement no different from any other rotation on the ramp. Royal flight catering here is held to a written specification kept on file between movements, with halal and other household dietary requirements produced against that same standing order rather than reworked each time.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at FALE
Across the wide-body stands at Durban, a 3700 metre runway takes the aircraft that ACMI and wet-lease operators typically fly on a group movement or a special mission. Charter flight catering at DUR covers a full three-cabin uplift counted against the loading sheet and staged in galley order, with charter flight catering in South Africa run to the same multi-leg standard whether the rotation is a single leg or several.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at DUR
The wide-body reference code at Durban lets carriers run this station as an outstation without a change in loading method, since the same hi-loader sequence covers a scheduled turn or an unplanned one. That reach supports ad hoc airline catering, outstation catering, diversion catering and technical stop catering off one duty roster, with AOG covered and crew meals in Durban carried on the same multi-leg schedule as the passenger load, and crew meals at Durban and outstation catering in Durban and ad hoc airline catering in South Africa and ad hoc catering at DUR and diversion catering at DUR all worked from the same kitchen.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at Durban
A wide-body reference code shapes the ramp at Durban, and business aviation traffic on that same field is sequenced around the larger movements rather than given a separate track. Our dedicated private jet catering branch delivers to the FBOs on the field and the GA terminal, with FBO catering at FALE, business aviation catering and business jet catering held to the same cold chain and the same paperwork as an airline uplift.
Private jets →
FBOs at Durban
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Charter flight catering reviewed at Durban (DUR)
Protocol officers on government flight catering at Durban
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
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Scheduled airline
“Our ops team used the service at Durban (DUR/FALE) as an airline catering broker. 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.”
★★★★☆Government flight department
Julien — Air Mobility Coordinator
“We booked airline catering in Durban for a flight operating through DUR/FALE. Everything arrived fresh, well presented, and easy for the cabin crew to organize before boarding. Good local support for a VIP operation. The order was complete on arrival and easy for us to check before closing the doors.”
★★★★★Charter operator
Jamal — Flight Operations Coordinator
“For our flight from Durban (DUR/FALE), the cabin order included multiple kosher airline meals. The order arrived complete and the special requests were handled with the same presentation as the regular meals. Very reassuring for the cabin crew. The final handover was simple and there was nothing for the crew to correct before departure.”
★★★★★Charter operator
Liam — Crew Planning Coordinator
Airport catering facts for Durban (FALE / DUR)
| Datum | Value |
|---|---|
| Longest runway | 3,700 m |
| Runways | 1 |
| Aerodrome reference code | wide-body |
| ICAO | FALE |
Business jet catering questions at DUR
Technical stop catering questions at DUR
What operations gets asked every week about Durban.
Ask operations directly →How much does airline catering cost at DUR?
Cost rests on the standard the quotation is built against: cabin count, specification and the loading window all move the figure, so we do not publish a price list. The desk at DUR comes back with a number once those three are known.
Can you take a last-minute change to a catering order at FALE?
How far in advance an order needs to be placed depends on the specification, but a lead time is confirmed at booking so the kitchen can plan production against it. Last minute airline catering changes are still worked where the specification allows, right up to the loading window closing.
At what point does airline catering reach the aircraft at Durban?
The uplift is sealed at the kitchen first, then moved under escort to the ramp for airside delivery straight to the stand. From there it goes up by hi-loader to galley height, never left at the foot of the aircraft.
Do you produce halal, kosher and IATA special meal codes at Durban Airport?
Yes, produced on a separate line and documented per passenger, covering halal, kosher and the full set of SPML codes. Each set is sealed before it leaves the kitchen and travels with its own paperwork through to the cabin.
Outstation catering near Durban
VIR / FAVG
Durban
South Africa · 18 km from Durban
Airline & VIP flight catering →
PZB / FAPM
Pietermaritzburg
South Africa · 70 km from Durban
Airline & VIP flight catering →
RCB / FARB
Richards Bay
South Africa · 135 km from Durban
Airline & VIP flight catering →
Flight catering quote for Durban airport
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Durban (DUR / FALE)
Give us the aircraft and what goes on board. A coordinator comes back with a quote for Durban, 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 Durban (DUR)