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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — Mumbai, India
Wide-body airline catering, VIP flight catering and private jet catering at Mumbai (VABB / BOM)
BOM (IATA) · VABB (ICAO)
A 3509 m runway at Mumbai clears the wide-body movements this station turns around every day, and that scale sets the standard for inflight catering here. Aviation catering for scheduled, charter, VVIP and government flights runs from hi-loader boarding at galley height to in-flight catering staged for a full three-cabin uplift, airside, on one ops desk.
3,509 m
Longest runway
Wide-body
Largest aircraft handled
2
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 — Mumbai
Inflight catering with hi-loader boarding at Mumbai (BOM)
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Aircraft catering lead times at Mumbai (BOM)
Aviation catering from sealed cart to galley door at VABB
The loading window at Mumbai is measured, not estimated, from the sealed cart at our kitchen to the galley door on the wide-body stand. Every catering uplift is logged against that sequence rather than against a promised hour, so a delay on the ramp is visible before it reaches the aircraft. Airside delivery at BOM runs on our own clearance, which keeps the sequence inside our control rather than a shared one.
Between our kitchen and the stand at Mumbai sit screening, escort and apron traffic, and the convoy carrying a catering uplift is the part of the operation we plan against hardest, not the food itself. Chain of custody runs from the seal at the flight kitchen through the escorted route to the aircraft, with galley catering handed over under one signature rather than passed between crews along the way. Temperature is logged when the load is sealed and logged again at handover, so the record at VABB shows the cold chain held end to end, not assumed.
One seal at the kitchen, one signature at the aircraft, nothing in between goes unrecorded.
Flight kitchen and crew meals for VABB / BOM
Cargo crew meals produced to the same standard at Mumbai airport
Airport catering in Mumbai is provisioned from one flight kitchen holding hot production, pastry, a cold larder and a protocol cell under a single roof. HACCP governs every line, from intake through the cold larder to the sealed cart, so a tray set leaving for a wide-body stand carries the same standard as one built for a household movement. Airport catering at BOM depends on that single facility rather than a network of subcontracted kitchens, which is what keeps the cold chain unbroken between production and the stand at VABB.
The team that handles government flight catering at this kitchen is the same named crew on every rotation, not a rotating pool assembled per flight. Security clearance is held on file and checked against the access list before anyone reaches a sealed cart, and every member is trained to household service standards as well as to airline handover paperwork. That pairing of clearance and procedure is what lets a state movement and a scheduled wide-body rotation leave the same kitchen on the same afternoon.
Halal airline meals and special meals at VABB / BOM
Commercial aviation catering written per cabin at Mumbai (BOM)
From passenger meal boxes to VVIP menus, the airline catering menu at Mumbai is written to the cabin, the mission and the season rather than to a single fixed list. Inflight catering here draws on regional produce in general terms, dairy, orchard fruit and fish sourced within the country, worked into a VIP flight menu or a charter flight menu as the mission requires. Special meals are documented per passenger and per cabin, with allergen, halal, kosher and medical sets produced against a written specification rather than assembled loosely on the day. Every set, from a scheduled sector to a government rotation, is plated and sealed to that same documented standard before it leaves the kitchen at VABB.
First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins at Mumbai are plated to a written specification rather than a rotating list, with caviar service and à-la-carte options available on request. VIP flight catering here is filed against the standing order, so the presentation an operator signs off once is the presentation boarded on every rotation after it.
Business cabins
Business cabins at VABB run on multi-choice hot service built to cabin specification, boxed into oven-ready formats sized to the galley fitted to the aircraft. Crew meals at Mumbai travel in the same tray sets, with cabin crew meals and pilot meals boxed separately and matched to the duty roster for crew meals in India generally.
Protocol & dietary
Protocol and dietary requirements at BOM are documented per passenger, covering household, religious and medical needs alongside halal and kosher sets built to the full range of IATA special meal codes. Inflight catering at BOM produces each set on a separate line, sealed before it leaves the kitchen so a household or delegation order never crosses a standard 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
Aircraft catering food safety at BOM
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 BOM
Mumbai handles scheduled, charter, VIP and government traffic across two runways built to a wide-body reference code, a mix that puts documentation, peak-wave capacity and repeat rotations on the same ops desk at once. A delegation movement is a paperwork problem before it is a food problem, a bank of arriving widebodies is a capacity problem, and a repeat charter rotation is a repetition problem, and BOM's stands are worked with that distinction in mind rather than one generic process for all three.
Uplift travels from our flight kitchen to the ramp under escort, boarded by hi-loader directly to galley height rather than left at the foot of the aircraft, with airside delivery held on our own clearance. Airline catering at BOM and inflight catering at this station run off that same escorted route, and aviation catering in Mumbai is planned stand by stand rather than pooled across the field. In-flight catering in India follows the identical sequence at every wide-body station we hold, so a crew that has worked one of our stands recognises the next.
One coordinator carries the rotation from kitchen seal to aircraft signature, and airport catering at BOM closes on that same signed handover every time.
VVIP catering and commercial flights at Mumbai airport
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Government and state flight catering at BOM
Against the wide-body reference code held at Mumbai, a head of state aircraft boards through the same sequence as a scheduled widebody, only with the protocol layer added on top. Government flight catering at VABB documents the file per passenger, staffs it with security-cleared personnel, and seals the uplift before it leaves the kitchen.
Government & state flights →
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at Mumbai
Working a private airliner against the same wide-body reference code held at BOM means holding one household specification across repeat visits rather than rebuilding it each time. Royal flight catering at Mumbai covers BBJ, ACJ and wide-body VVIP movements, with halal and other royal household dietary requirements produced on request from the file kept on record between rotations.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at VABB
3509 metres of runway at Mumbai clears the wide-body charter movements this ramp is built for, including ACMI and wet-lease rotations run back to back. Charter flight catering at BOM covers group movements and special missions with a full three-cabin uplift counted against the loading sheet, and charter flight catering in India follows the same multi-leg sequence across every sector of the rotation.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at BOM
A scheduled widebody working Mumbai as an outstation draws on the same wide-body reference code that lets us stage a full three-cabin uplift on short notice. Ad hoc airline catering at BOM covers outstation catering, diversion catering and technical stop catering off one duty roster, with AOG covered on the same roster and a multi-leg rotation held to one specification across every sector.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at Mumbai
Our kitchen draws on the same 3509 m runway that clears wide-body movements to also provision the business aviation traffic working Mumbai's ramp on a shorter cycle. Private jet catering at Mumbai reaches the FBOs on the field and the GA terminal through our dedicated branch, with FBO catering and business aviation catering held to the same cold chain and business jet catering paperwork as an airline uplift.
Private jets →
FBOs at Mumbai
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Aviation catering trusted by operators at Mumbai, India
Protocol officers on government flight catering at Mumbai, India
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
Scheduled airline
“For a team flight from Mumbai (BOM/VABB), we booked sports team flight meals with several dietary requests. They handled the nutrition requests well and kept everything organized for fast distribution onboard. We would book them again for another team movement. The order was complete on arrival and easy for us to check before closing the doors.”
★★★★★Scheduled airline
Giulia — FBO Services Manager
“We needed evacuation flight catering at Mumbai (BOM/VABB) for a time-sensitive operation. The team understood that reliability mattered more than complexity and stayed flexible until uplift. We appreciated the flexibility. The order was complete on arrival and easy for us to check before closing the doors. The final handover was simple and there was nothing for the crew to correct before departure.”
★★★★★Scheduled airline
Elisa — Airport Services Manager
“We used the team at Mumbai (BOM/VABB) for cargo crew meals on a night operation. They respected the unusual timing and kept communication direct with our ops team. Good service for freighter crews and odd-hour schedules. Responses were quick whenever we had a question, which helped us keep the flight on schedule.”
★★★★★Private jet operator
Dario — Cabin Services Manager
Mumbai (VABB / BOM): airport catering data
| Datum | Value |
|---|---|
| Longest runway | 3,509 m |
| Runways | 2 |
| Aerodrome reference code | wide-body |
| ICAO | VABB |
Business jet catering questions at VABB / BOM
Technical stop catering questions at VABB / BOM
What operations gets asked every week about Mumbai.
Ask operations directly →Do you produce halal, kosher and IATA special meal codes at Mumbai?
Yes, halal and kosher sets are produced on a separate line, with the full range of SPML codes documented per passenger and matched to the cabin manifest before sealing.
How much does airline catering cost at BOM?
The specification held on file drives the quotation: cabin count, menu tier and the loading window all factor in, since airline catering cost is never fixed to a published list and the desk comes back with a figure once those are known.
At what point does airline catering reach the aircraft at VABB?
The sequence opens at the sealed cart leaving our kitchen, moves under escort across the apron, and closes with hi-loader boarding directly to galley height, which is what airside delivery means at this station rather than a handoff at the stand.
Can an order for Mumbai still change close to departure?
The lead time for a full specification runs from the standing planning cycle, but a last minute airline catering change, a cabin count adjustment or an added special meal can still be accommodated how far in advance depends on what is changing and how close to the loading window it falls.
Outstation catering near Mumbai
NMI / VANM
Navi Mumbai
India · 24 km from Mumbai
Airline & VIP flight catering →
PNQ / VAPO
Pune
India · 124 km from Mumbai
Airline & VIP flight catering →
NMB / VADN
Daman
India · 150 km from Mumbai
Airline & VIP flight catering →
Charter flight catering quote for BOM
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Mumbai (BOM / VABB)
Give us the aircraft and what goes on board. A coordinator comes back with a quote for Mumbai, 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 Mumbai (BOM)