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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — Xigazê, China
VIP & private jet catering with airline catering at Xigazê (ZUDR / DDR)
DDR (IATA) · ZUDR (ICAO)
With a 4500 m runway holding a wide-body reference code, Xigazê clears scheduled, charter, government and royal movements onto a single ramp. Inflight catering here runs through one ops desk, boarded by hi-loader to galley height, with in-flight catering at Xigazê and inflight catering at DDR staged from a kitchen close to the apron.
4,500 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 — Xigazê
Aviation catering boarded by hi-loader at Xigazê, China
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Aviation catering timeline, order to boarding, at Xigazê (DDR)
Flight catering sealed and logged to the stand at ZUDR
Catering at DDR moves on a fixed sequence rather than a guess: carts are sealed at the kitchen, driven under escort, and checked again at the galley door before departure. Ramp access is held on our own badges, so the convoy crosses the apron without waiting on a third party's clearance. Every uplift, whatever the cabin count, follows the same catering uplift sequence from seal to signature.
Between our kitchen and the stand at Xigazê sit screening, an escorted convoy and the ordinary traffic of a working apron, and we build the loading window against the worst of those, not the average. Chain of custody runs on a single sealed cart from kitchen to galley catering handover, with no unescorted stop along the way. Temperature is logged at sealing and logged again at the galley door, and the sheet that closes the load carries a signature confirming the catering uplift arrived as it left.
One seal, one escort, one signature: that is what a loading window actually measures.
Airline food supplier kitchen serving Xigazê, China
Pilot meals and cleared production crews for Xigazê airport
Airport catering at DDR is provisioned from a facility built to run hot production, pastry, a cold larder and a protocol cell under one roof, feeding every wide-body movement cleared onto this ramp. HACCP governs the line from intake to sealing, and the cold chain is held from the larder to the cart, not just inside the building. Airport catering at ZUDR and the flight kitchen at DDR share one production standard, so a scheduled rotation and a diverted wide-body are provisioned the same way.
Government flight catering at ZUDR is handled by the same named team on every rotation, not a rotating pool assigned as availability allows. Each member carries security clearance on file, sits on the access list for the protocol cell, and is trained to royal household standards for the paperwork that travels with a sealed uplift. Catering at ZUDR is signed off by that team alone, from kitchen seal to galley handover.
VIP flight catering menus for ZUDR / DDR departures
Commercial aviation catering written per cabin at Xigazê (DDR)
Inflight catering at Xigazê is written to the cabin, the mission and the season rather than to a single fixed sheet. Produce drawn from the surrounding region of China informs the main-cabin and premium trays alike, with dairy, orchard fruit and regional staples worked into a seasonal rotation rather than a fixed menu. Allergen, halal, kosher and medical requirements are documented per passenger and per cabin, labelled before they leave the kitchen. Special meal codes are produced on their own line, sealed separately, and checked against the passenger list before boarding.
First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins at DDR receive VIP flight catering plated to a written specification, with caviar service and à-la-carte options available on request. Presentation is filed against the standing order for the cabin, so a repeat rotation is served to the same set piece every time.
Business cabins
Business cabins at Xigazê run on multi-choice hot service built to cabin specification, boxed in oven-ready formats sized to the galley fitted to the aircraft. Crew meals at ZUDR and crew meals at DDR are boxed separately from the passenger load, with cabin crew meals and pilot meals kept apart on the loading sheet.
Protocol & dietary
Protocol and dietary requirements at Xigazê are documented per passenger, covering halal and kosher sets alongside the full range of IATA special meal codes. Inflight catering at ZUDR produces these on a separate line from the main service and seals them before they leave the kitchen for the stand.
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 under HACCP control at ZUDR
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 DDR
Xigazê carries scheduled, charter and government traffic across a single wide-body stand, and that mix turns every movement into a documentation exercise as much as a loading one: a delegation needs its protocol file matched to the passenger list, a charter needs its full three-cabin uplift counted against the loading sheet, and a repeat rotation needs the same specification held week after week. Aviation catering in Xigazê and in-flight catering in China both move through one production line before reaching the ramp, and airport catering at Xigazê is planned stand by stand rather than assumed from a generic schedule.
The uplift travels from our kitchen to the aircraft door by hi-loader, boarded to galley height rather than left at the foot of the stairs, with our own crew holding ramp access onto the apron. Inflight catering and airline catering at DDR run off the same ops desk, so a scheduled service and an ad hoc diversion are handled by the same duty roster rather than two separate teams.
One coordinator signs off each rotation, from the sealed cart at the kitchen to the handover signature at the galley door.
VVIP catering and commercial flights at Xigazê airport
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Government and state flight catering at DDR
The single wide-body stand at this field carries a reference code built for the largest movements it handles, which is what lets a head of state aircraft park and load here without a downgraded specification. Government flight catering at Xigazê is documented per passenger by security-cleared staff, with the protocol file closed and the uplift sealed before it leaves the kitchen.
Government & state flights →
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at Xigazê
Our kitchen provisions the wide-body reference code held at this stand to the same specification whether the movement is scheduled or a private airliner on a one-off rotation. Royal flight catering at ZUDR covers BBJ, ACJ and wide-body VIP airframes, with royal household standards and VVIP dietary requirements held on file between movements rather than rebuilt each time.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at ZUDR
Wide-body stands at Xigazê take a full three-cabin configuration on a single reference code, which is what a charter or ACMI operator needs for a group movement rather than a scaled point-to-point sector. Charter flight catering at Xigazê and charter flight catering at ZUDR both cover wet-lease operators, sports-team and tour-operator charters, and repatriation or humanitarian missions, loaded on a multi-leg rotation and counted against the loading sheet stand by stand.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at DDR
A wide-body reference code governs every stand at Xigazê, which means a diverted widebody and a scheduled rotation are loaded to the same specification rather than a scaled-down one. That code supports ad hoc airline catering for carriers running this station as an outstation, with outstation catering, diversion catering and technical stop catering handled off one duty roster, AOG included, across a multi-leg rotation, while crew meals in Xigazê and crew meals at Xigazê travel boxed separately on the same loading sheet, and diversion catering at DDR draws on the same ad hoc airline catering in China network.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at Xigazê
A wide-body VIP airframe on this same reference code shares its ramp with the GA terminal and the FBOs on the field, which is where our private-jet branch delivers business aviation work. Private jet catering at DDR reaches every FBO on the field on the same cold chain and paperwork as an airline uplift, with FBO catering, business aviation catering and business jet catering all held to that one standard.
Private jets →
Charter flight catering reviewed at ZUDR / DDR
Flight departments on jet catering at Xigazê, China
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
Scheduled airline
“Our team used the service at Xigazê (DDR/ZUDR) for delegation flight catering with strict timing and handling requirements. Special meals and crew items were clearly separated, and the aircraft-side handover was smooth. Reliable, discreet, and easy to work with. That made the turnaround easier for both the flight crew and the team on the ground.”
★★★★★Charter operator
Lucia — Charter Operations Executive
“I handled the cabin order for a flight from Xigazê (DDR/ZUDR) and needed private airliner catering. Everything arrived neatly packed, easy to identify in the galley, and consistent with the presentation we requested. Exactly the level of detail we expect for VIP flying. The final handover was simple and there was nothing for the crew to correct before departure.”
★★★★★Charter operator
Ahmed — Freighter Station Supervisor
“We booked pilgrim flight catering at Xigazê (DDR/ZUDR) for a large group departure. The team handled the volume well and kept the boxes clearly identified by flight and service. A dependable choice for group charter operations. From an operational point of view, the service was easy to manage and required very little follow-up.”
★★★★★Scheduled airline
Leila — Dispatch Support Coordinator
Outstation catering data for Xigazê (ZUDR / DDR)
| Datum | Value |
|---|---|
| Longest runway | 4,500 m |
| Runways | 1 |
| Aerodrome reference code | wide-body |
| ICAO | ZUDR |
Business jet catering questions at ZUDR / DDR
Diversion catering and ramp questions at ZUDR / DDR
What operations gets asked every week about Xigazê.
Ask operations directly →On the ramp at ZUDR, can you deliver private jet catering to the FBOs and the GA terminal on the field?
There is full coverage of every FBO on the field and the GA terminal at Xigazê, with FBO catering delivered on the same cold chain and paperwork as an airline uplift.
How far in advance do you need the order, and how much does airline catering cost for a rotation through Xigazê?
The standard our quotation rests on covers cabin count, specification and loading window rather than a fixed price list, so airline catering cost at this station is confirmed once the desk has those three details and comes back with a figure.
At what point does the uplift leave the kitchen for airline catering delivered airside at Xigazê Airport?
The sealed cart leaves our kitchen first, under escort across the apron, then boards by hi-loader directly onto the aircraft, so airside delivery never puts the load down at the foot of the stairs.
DDR: do you cater VIP, VVIP and government flights here, and under what protocol?
The hi-loader that boards every wide-body movement at this stand carries VIP flight catering and government flight catering alike, with the protocol file closed and the uplift sealed before departure.
Airport catering near Xigazê
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Lukla
Nepal · 102 km from Xigazê
Airline & VIP flight catering →
TPJ / VNTJ
Taplejung
Nepal · 165 km from Xigazê
Airline & VIP flight catering →
KTM / VNKT
Kathmandu
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Airline & VIP flight catering →
Inflight catering quote for Xigazê airport
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Xigazê (DDR / ZUDR)
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Uplift at Xigazê (DDR)