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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — Xi'an, China
Xi'an (ZLSN / SIA): airline catering, VIP flight catering and private jet catering
SIA (IATA) · ZLSN (ICAO)
At Xi'an, a narrow-body reference code sets the stands and the aircraft that board here, and inflight catering is planned around that class rather than around a mismatched wide-body promise. Our crews work every rotation from a single sealed kitchen line, boarding by hi-loader to galley height and running the in-flight catering uplift airside on our own badges, cabin by cabin.
Narrow-body
Largest aircraft handled
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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 — Xi'an
Inflight catering with hi-loader boarding at Xi'an airport
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Aviation catering timeline, order to boarding, at Xi'an
Aircraft catering handover at the galley door, Xi'an, China
The hi-loader is what turns a kitchen delivery into a boarded uplift at Xi'an, carrying the sealed load from the ramp gate to the galley door on the same pass. Ramp access is held on our own badges rather than handed to a general handling queue, so the cart moves the moment the apron clears it for the stand. Catering uplift here follows one route from seal to signature, with nothing added and nothing skipped along the way.
Between our kitchen and the stand at Xi'an sit screening, an escort through the apron traffic and the queue for ramp clearance, and we plan the catering uplift against the worst of those, not the best case. Chain of custody starts the moment the cart is sealed at the kitchen door: a driver cleared for airside movement, an escort where the ramp calls for one, and a single galley catering log carried with the load rather than radioed ahead of it. Temperature is read and recorded at sealing and again at handover, and the same signature that opens the cart closes the file on it.
One sealed cart, one escort, one signature: nothing changes hands unrecorded.
Crew meals from the kitchen serving SIA
Pilot meals and cleared production crews for ZLSN / SIA
The flight kitchen that provisions Xi'an runs hot production, pastry, a cold larder and a protocol line under one roof, built to the narrow-body cabin count this station takes rather than to a wide-body volume it does not fly. Airport catering here is HACCP-run from intake to loading, with the cold chain held from the larder to the cart and never broken for a queue on the ramp. That same discipline is what airport catering depends on at every stand this kitchen feeds, in China and beyond it.
The team that handles government flight catering at Xi'an is the same named crew every rotation: security clearance on file, listed on the access roster, and trained to the household and protocol standards a delegation expects. Sealed uplift travels with its own paperwork rather than loose instructions passed at the ramp, so catering at ZLSN is signed for at both ends of the run. No cell in that team changes between one movement and the next.
Halal airline meals and special meals at ZLSN
VVIP catering written per mission at Xi'an
Menus at Xi'an are written to the cabin, the mission and the season, not to a fixed rotation of set dishes, and they draw where useful on produce from the surrounding province rather than an imported standard. A protocol movement is planned differently to a scheduled multi-class service, and the tray set, the plating and the paperwork all follow that distinction. Inflight catering at ZLSN closes on documentation as much as on the plate: allergen, halal, kosher and medical sets are labelled per passenger and per cabin, not batched. Nothing leaves the kitchen without that label attached to it.
First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins at Xi'an take VIP flight catering plated to a written specification, with à-la-carte and course-by-course service available on request. The presentation is filed against the standing order before the cart is sealed, so a repeat rotation boards to the same plate twice.
Business cabins
Business cabins at SIA run a multi-choice hot service built to a written cabin specification, boxed in oven-ready formats sized to the galley fitted on board. Crew meals, cabin crew meals and pilot meals travel in their own boxed sets, labelled to the roster rather than mixed into the passenger load.
Protocol & dietary
Protocol and dietary requirements at ZLSN are documented per passenger before the cart is sealed, covering household, religious and medical sets alongside halal, kosher and the full range of IATA special meal codes. Each set is produced on a separate line so inflight catering never crosses a dietary boundary between trays.
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
Airline catering services under HACCP at Xi'an 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 Xi'an (SIA)
Xi'an takes scheduled and charter traffic on a narrow-body reference code, which sets a repeat-rotation pattern rather than a wide-body peak-wave problem: the same cabin counts recur, so the documentation load on a delegation or a repeat charter matters more here than sheer volume ever does. Airline catering at SIA is planned stand by stand against that pattern, with each rotation logged against its own loading sheet rather than a generic template.
The uplift reaches the aircraft from one flight kitchen line, staged onto sealed carts and moved to the ramp with ground handling on the apron and airside delivery straight to the stand. Aviation catering and in-flight catering run off the same ops desk, so a diversion or a late change does not require a second point of contact; airport catering at ZLSN is coordinated by that desk from first call to final signature. Inflight catering in Xi'an is loaded by hi-loader to galley height rather than left at the foot of the aircraft.
On every rotation we commit one coordinator, sealed carts and a signed handover at the stand.
Commercial aviation catering for every mission at Xi'an airport
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Government and state flight catering at Xi'an
A narrow-body reference code fixes the cabin layout at Xi'an, which lets a delegation's protocol file be built against a known, unchanging galley plan rather than an assumption. Government flight catering here documents that file per passenger, with security-cleared staff sealing the uplift before it leaves the kitchen for a head of state movement or a state visit.
Government & state flights →
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at Xi'an
Our kitchen builds every royal flight catering order at Xi'an against the same narrow-body cabin layout the field is rated for, holding a household specification on file between movements rather than rebuilding it each time. Private airliners, halal sets and other household dietary requirements are handled on request, with VVIP and royal household standards carried unchanged across repeat rotations.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at ZLSN
A narrow-body reference code governs every charter flight catering load at Xi'an, setting the cabin count an ACMI or wet-lease operator can plan against before the aircraft is even confirmed. Charter flight catering here covers group movements and special missions with a full multi-class uplift counted against the loading sheet and staged in galley order.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at Xi'an
A narrow-body reference code fixes the cabin count this station boards, which means a diverted or delayed rotation has to be replanned against that same fixed layout rather than resized on the fly. Ad hoc airline catering at Xi'an covers carriers running this field as an outstation, with outstation catering, diversion catering and technical stop catering worked off one duty roster; crew meals in Xi'an and crew meals at SIA travel boxed to the same roster across a multi-leg rotation.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at Xi'an
Business jets sized to the narrow-body reference code at Xi'an board from the same ramp infrastructure as scheduled traffic, which is why private jet catering here reaches the FBOs on the field and the GA terminal on the same cold chain and the same paperwork as an airline uplift.
Private jets →
Inflight catering trusted by operators at Xi'an (SIA)
Ops desks on aviation catering at SIA
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
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Scheduled airline
“Our ops team used the service at Xi'an (SIA/ZLSN) as an airline catering partner. The response time was good and we did not have to manage several local suppliers ourselves. Very convenient for operational coverage. From an operational point of view, the service was easy to manage and required very little follow-up.”
★★★★★Scheduled airline
Omar — Operations Control Officer
“I arranged VIP flight catering in Xi'an for our departure from SIA/ZLSN. Communication was responsive and the team handled a late timing change without any issue. Good local support for a VIP operation. Responses were quick whenever we had a question, which helped us keep the flight on schedule.”
★★★★☆Private jet operator
William — Cabin Operations Lead
“I requested special meals for passengers departing Xi'an (SIA/ZLSN) and the labeling was excellent. 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 order was complete on arrival and easy for us to check before closing the doors.”
★★★★☆Charter operator
Carla — Flight Services Coordinator
Airport catering profile for Xi'an (ZLSN / SIA)
| Datum | Value |
|---|---|
| Aerodrome reference code | narrow-body |
| ICAO | ZLSN |
Aircraft catering questions at ZLSN / SIA
Diversion catering and ramp questions at ZLSN
What operations gets asked every week about Xi'an.
Ask operations directly →Who sets the lead time for a specification change at ZLSN?
For a scheduled rotation the desk holds the order open until close to departure; last minute airline catering and diversion changes are worked against how far in advance the change reaches the kitchen, and the desk confirms the cut-off on a case-by-case basis.
Where does Xi'an handle VIP, VVIP and government flight catering?
The protocol file kept on every delegation movement is what proves it: VIP flight catering and government flight catering both run under the same sealed-uplift protocol, security-cleared staff, and a signed handover at the stand.
Which airline catering at Xi'an Xianyang International Airport is delivered airside?
The hi-loader is the method: every cart moves from our kitchen to the ramp and boards straight to galley height, so airside delivery never puts the uplift down at the foot of the aircraft.
Does SIA produce halal, kosher and IATA special meal codes?
Every special meal code in the IATA SPML range is produced on its own line, halal and kosher included, and each tray is documented per passenger before it is sealed for boarding.
Jet catering at airports near Xi'an
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Xi'an
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Airline & VIP flight catering →
YCU / ZBYC
Yuncheng
China · 193 km from Xi'an
Airline & VIP flight catering →
IQN / ZLQY
Qingyang
China · 210 km from Xi'an
Airline & VIP flight catering →
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