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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — Xilinhot, China
Airline catering, VIP & private jet catering at Xilinhot (ZBXH / XIL)
XIL (IATA) · ZBXH (ICAO)
The 2800 m runway at Xilinhot clears a wide-body reference code, which sets the loading plan for every uplift boarded here. AERO GOURMET runs inflight catering, in-flight catering and aviation catering at this station for scheduled, charter, VIP, government and private jet movements, with hi-loader boarding to galley height rather than delivery at the foot of the aircraft.
2,800 m
Longest runway
Wide-body
Largest aircraft handled
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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 — Xilinhot
Inflight catering at wide-body scale for Xilinhot airport
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Catering uplift timing at Xilinhot, China
Aviation catering from sealed cart to galley door at Xilinhot airport
Ramp access at Xilinhot is where the loading window is won or lost, not the kitchen. From the sealed cart to the galley door, the route runs across the apron under one escort rather than a queue of separate deliveries. Every uplift boarded at this wide-body stand follows the same sequence, so the window is measured, not promised.
Between our kitchen and the stand at Xilinhot sit screening, an apron crossing and an escorted convoy, and the catering uplift is planned against the slowest of the three rather than the fastest. Chain of custody runs on paper as well as on the ramp: each cart is sealed at the kitchen, logged again at the galley door, and the galley catering is only handed over once both temperature logs agree. A single loading crew carries the load from seal to signature, so no cart changes hands unrecorded between ZBXH and the aircraft.
One sealed cart, one escort, one signature — from our kitchen to the galley door.
Flight kitchen and crew meals for Xilinhot, China
Pilot meals and cleared production crews for Xilinhot (XIL)
Airport catering at Xilinhot runs from a production kitchen built around hot production, pastry, a cold larder and a protocol cell under one roof, all working to HACCP. Passenger meal boxes and full tray sets move off the same floor as the VIP line, so airport catering in China's north can hold one cold chain across every cabin on a rotation. That single-roof layout is what lets flight kitchen output at XIL reach the stand as one uplift rather than several.
The team that handles government flight catering at Xilinhot is the same named crew on every rotation, not a rotating pool drawn in for one movement. Each member carries a security clearance on file, sits on the access list for the ramp, and is trained to household service standards for the paperwork that travels with a sealed uplift. That continuity is what keeps catering at XIL auditable from one rotation to the next.
VIP flight catering and dietary sets at Xilinhot
Royal flight catering standards per cabin at Xilinhot, China
Menus at Xilinhot are written to the cabin and the mission first, the season second: a VIP flight menu for the forward cabins, a charter flight menu for a group movement, a rostered cycle for a scheduled rotation. Inflight catering here draws where it can on produce from Inner Mongolia's grasslands and dairy country, worked into a specification rather than a fixed dish list, so the same tray set can flex between a state visit and a routine turnaround. Every set is labelled per passenger and per cabin, with allergen, halal, kosher and medical codes documented against the loading sheet before the cart is sealed. Nothing leaves the kitchen without that label matched to a name on the manifest.
First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins at Xilinhot are plated to a written specification rather than an open kitchen brief, with à-la-carte and VIP flight catering available on request for a state or private movement. Each course is filed against the standing order, so a repeat rotation is served the same way twice.
Business cabins
Business cabins at XIL run on multi-choice hot service, oven-ready and sized to the galley fitted to the aircraft on the stand. Crew meals, cabin crew meals and pilot meals are boxed separately to the roster in Xilinhot, so the flight deck and the cabin crew are never drawing from the passenger tray count.
Protocol & dietary
Protocol and dietary requirements at ZBXH are documented per passenger before the cart is sealed, covering household, religious and medical sets alongside halal and kosher production. The full range of IATA special meal codes is produced on a separate line, so inflight catering for one passenger's SPML never crosses the main tray run.
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 Xilinhot
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.
Airside airport catering at ZBXH
Xilinhot works a mixed traffic profile off its single wide-body-rated runway, so a delegation movement and a scheduled rotation can sit on the field within the same shift. That mix turns catering into two different problems at once: a state or VIP delegation is a documentation problem, built around the protocol file rather than the tray count, while a peak wave of scheduled or charter departures is a capacity problem, built around how many carts the kitchen can seal in sequence.
The uplift reaches the aircraft here by hi-loader, boarded straight to the galley door rather than staged at the foot of the aircraft, with ground handling on the apron and airside delivery held under escort for the length of the crossing. Inflight catering, in-flight catering at ZBXH and aviation catering in China run off the same duty roster, so a diversion or a technical stop is worked by the crew already on shift rather than one called in cold. Airport catering at XIL is planned stand by stand against the loading sheet for that rotation.
On every movement through Xilinhot we commit one coordinator, sealed carts and a signed handover at the galley door, so airline catering at Xilinhot carries the same named responsibility from kitchen to aircraft on every rotation.
VVIP catering alongside scheduled flights at Xilinhot airport
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Government and state flight catering at ZBXH
At the wide-body stand held under the airport's reference code, government flight catering at Xilinhot is worked for state visits and official delegations with the protocol file documented per passenger. Security-cleared staff seal the uplift before it leaves the kitchen, and a head of state aircraft is boarded on the same escorted sequence as any other movement handled at ZBXH.
Government & state flights →
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at XIL
A private airliner working to household standards has to be sequenced around the single wide-body stand at Xilinhot, which is what fixes the loading order for every VVIP movement on the field. Royal flight catering here holds a written specification on file between rotations for BBJ, ACJ and other wide-body VIP aircraft, with halal and household dietary requirements produced to that same standard on request.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at Xilinhot
The runway here measures 2800 metres, long enough to bring a wide-body charter or ACMI aircraft onto the single stand for a full three-cabin uplift. Charter flight catering at Xilinhot covers wet-lease operators, group movements and special missions, with charter flight catering counted against the loading sheet and staged in the order the galleys are laid out.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at Xilinhot
A wide-body diversion inbound to Xilinhot can be worked from the same stand that takes a scheduled rotation, because the reference code held here governs both. Ad hoc airline catering, outstation catering, diversion catering and technical stop catering in Xilinhot run off one duty roster, with crew meals boxed separately for both flight deck and cabin crew at ZBXH and again in China's wider network, and AOG covered across a multi-leg rotation without a menu cycle stopping the tray standard.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at XIL
We work the 2800 m runway at Xilinhot for business aviation on the same terms as any wide-body movement, delivering private jet catering in Xilinhot to the FBOs on the field and the GA terminal. FBO catering here runs on the same cold chain and the same paperwork as an airline uplift, handled by our dedicated business aviation catering and business jet catering branch.
Private jets →
Charter flight catering reviewed at Xilinhot (XIL)
Operators on commercial aviation catering at ZBXH / XIL
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
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Scheduled airline
“For a last-minute requirement at Xilinhot (XIL/ZBXH), we contacted them as our airline ops catering supplier. The response time was good and we did not have to manage several local suppliers ourselves. We would use the service again without hesitation. The final handover was simple and there was nothing for the crew to correct before departure.”
★★★★☆Charter operator
Yasmin — Flight Dispatch Coordinator
“I arranged private jet catering in Xilinhot for our departure from XIL/ZBXH. The order was confirmed quickly, delivered on time, and packed exactly as requested for the aircraft. Good local support for a VIP operation. Responses were quick whenever we had a question, which helped us keep the flight on schedule.”
★★★★★Scheduled airline
Alejandro — Station Operations Manager
“Our passenger profile required kosher airline meals at Xilinhot (XIL/ZBXH), with several different dietary restrictions. All requirements were followed and the cabin crew could see immediately which meal belonged to which passenger. 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
Hana — Private Aviation Manager
Aircraft catering station data for Xilinhot (ZBXH / XIL)
| Datum | Value |
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| Longest runway | 2,800 m |
| Runways | 1 |
| Aerodrome reference code | wide-body |
| ICAO | ZBXH |
Business jet catering questions at Xilinhot
Diversion catering and ramp questions at Xilinhot
What operations gets asked every week about Xilinhot.
Ask operations directly →In Xilinhot, are halal, kosher and the IATA special meal codes produced here?
The sealed cart carrying a passenger's tray is built on a separate line for halal, kosher and every SPML code we hold on file, documented against the manifest before it leaves the kitchen.
At Xilinhot Airport, how far in advance does an order need to be placed, and how late can the specification still change?
There is a standing lead time for a first booking and a shorter window for a change once the cart is in production; both are confirmed by the desk against the loading sheet for that rotation, and last minute airline catering is worked where the loading window allows it.
At XIL, at what point does VIP, VVIP and government flight catering follow a different protocol from a scheduled rotation?
The protocol step comes first: a delegation or head-of-state movement is logged and security-cleared before the kitchen begins production, and VIP flight catering and government flight catering both run under that same file through to the sealed handover.
At ZBXH, whose figures decide what airline catering costs?
For every quotation the cabin count, the specification and the loading window set the airline catering cost, since no price list is published; the desk returns a figure once those three are confirmed.
In Xilinhot, how far does private jet catering reach across the FBOs and the GA terminal on the field?
The clearance that governs an airline uplift governs this one too: private jet catering and FBO catering reach every FBO on the field and the GA terminal on the same cold chain and paperwork.
Does Xilinhot Airport take airline catering delivered airside, straight to the aircraft?
Every cart is boarded airside by hi-loader to the galley door rather than left at the foot of the aircraft, with airside delivery held under escort for the length of the crossing.
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