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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — Sentani, Indonesia
Hi-loader airline catering, VIP flight catering and private jet catering at Sentani (WAJJ / DJJ)
DJJ (IATA) · WAJJ (ICAO)
AERO GOURMET runs inflight catering at Sentani (WAJJ/DJJ) on a wide-body reference code, which keeps a full three-cabin uplift, hi-loader boarding and galley-height handover inside one operating standard. Our in-flight catering here moves from a sealed kitchen to the stand by hi-loader, never left at the foot of the aircraft, on scheduled, charter, government and private jet rotations.
3,000 m
Longest runway
Wide-body
Largest aircraft handled
1
Runways
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 — Sentani
Aviation catering with ramp access at Sentani
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Aviation catering lead times and loading window at Sentani airport
Aircraft catering handover at the galley door, DJJ
The loading window at Sentani starts the moment a cart is sealed at our kitchen and ends when the galley door signs for it, with ramp access booked ahead of the slot rather than negotiated on arrival. Every metre of that route crosses the apron under escort, not left unattended between the gate and the aircraft. What the timeline below shows is a single catering uplift, tracked stage by stage rather than promised as a round figure.
Between our kitchen and the WAJJ stand, the convoy is the risk the plan is built around, not the food inside it: screening, escort and apron traffic all sit on that short route, and the schedule is set against the worst of them rather than the average. Chain of custody runs unbroken from the seal at the kitchen door to the signature at the galley, with no unescorted gap in between. Temperature is logged when the cart is sealed and logged again at handover, so a galley catering delivery at Sentani carries its own record of the cold chain it travelled on, and the same signed sheet closes the catering uplift at the aircraft.
One sealed cart, one escort, one signature: the load is never out of sight.
Airline food supplier kitchen serving Sentani (DJJ)
Pilot meals and cleared production crews for WAJJ
Airport catering at Sentani runs from a kitchen built around hot production, pastry, a cold larder and a protocol cell under one roof, so a wide-body rotation is not split across separate suppliers for its cabins and its crew. The same HACCP-run line that plates a main cabin tray set also closes a sealed government uplift, holding one cold chain from preparation to cart. Airport catering handled this way means DJJ carries one kitchen standard across every segment it boards, from scheduled service to a diverted aircraft on short notice.
The team behind government flight catering at DJJ is the same named crew on every rotation, security clearance held on file and each member kept on a fixed access list rather than rotated in from a general pool. They are trained to royal household standards as well as state protocol, so a sealed uplift for a delegation and one for a household movement pass through the same hands at Sentani. Chain of custody is signed by name at every stage the cart travels, from the kitchen seal to the aircraft door.
VIP flight catering menus for Sentani, Indonesia departures
VVIP catering written per mission at Sentani airport
AERO GOURMET plans its VIP flight menu and charter flight menu at Sentani around the cabin it boards and the mission it serves, rather than a single fixed offer repeated on every rotation. Inflight catering here draws on regional produce where the season allows it, worked into main cabin, Business and First specifications without naming a single dish or a single supplier. Every set carries a written allergen record, and halal and kosher preparation is run on its own line rather than adapted from a standard tray. The result is a menu built to the flight in front of it, documented before it ever reaches the aircraft.
First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins boarded at DJJ receive VIP flight catering plated to a written specification, with à-la-carte and caviar service available on request. Every course is filed against the standing order that governs the rotation, so the cabin crew work from the same reference each time.
Business cabins
Business cabins at Sentani take a multi-choice hot service built to oven-ready formats sized for the aircraft's own galley, boarded in tray sets and passenger meal boxes rather than improvised stand-side. Crew meals, cabin crew meals and pilot meals are boxed separately to the flight roster, so cockpit and cabin crew never draw from the passenger stock.
Protocol & dietary
Protocol and dietary requirements at WAJJ are documented per passenger before the flight, covering halal, kosher, vegan and gluten-free sets under the full IATA special meal codes. Inflight catering for these sets is produced on its own line and sealed separately, so a household or medical requirement never shares a tray with a standard cabin order.
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 Sentani (DJJ)
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 Sentani
Sentani carries a wide-body reference code, which sets the terms of every rotation we plan for it: a delegation on the stand is treated as a documentation task first, a peak departure wave as a capacity task, and a repeat charter rotation as a repetition task run against the same specification each time. That single classification decides how the kitchen sequences its output before either the aircraft or the cabin count is confirmed.
The uplift travels from our kitchen to the stand under escort, loaded by hi-loader to galley height rather than set down at the foot of the aircraft, with ground handling on the apron covering the last stretch of the route. Airline catering at DJJ, inflight catering, in-flight catering and aviation catering all run off the same ops desk rather than separate lines, so a change on one segment does not stall another. Airport catering in Indonesia at this scale depends on that single point of coordination holding for every stand booked that day.
What we commit to on this station is one named coordinator, sealed carts from kitchen to aircraft, and a signed handover at the galley door.
Royal flight catering and scheduled uplifts at WAJJ
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Government and state flight catering at WAJJ
A head of state aircraft boarding at Sentani draws on the same wide-body reference code held for every other movement here, which keeps its protocol handling inside the standard rather than as a special case. Government flight catering at this station covers state visits and official delegations, with the protocol file documented per passenger, security-cleared staff on the load, and catering at WAJJ sealed before it leaves the kitchen.
Government & state flights →
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at DJJ
At a wide-body station such as Sentani, the reference code itself is what keeps a private airliner movement on the same stand infrastructure as a scheduled service. Royal flight catering here holds household standards across repeat rotations from a written specification kept on file between movements, covering BBJ, ACJ and wide-body VIP aircraft, with halal and household dietary requirements produced on request.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at Sentani
Sequencing a full three-cabin uplift against a wide-body reference code is the constraint every charter rotation at Sentani is planned around, since the loading sheet has to match the galley layout before the cart ever leaves the kitchen. Charter flight catering here serves ACMI and wet-lease operators, group movements and special missions, with charter flight catering staged in galley order and counted against that sheet stand-side.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at DJJ
A wide-body reference code at Sentani sets the stand and hi-loader capacity that scheduled and ad hoc airline work here draws on. Carriers running DJJ as an outstation call on outstation catering and ad hoc airline catering in Indonesia alongside diversion catering at DJJ and technical stop catering, with crew meals in Indonesia and crew meals at Sentani boxed to the same roster across a multi-leg rotation.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at DJJ
A wide-body reference code at Sentani, which also covers the GA terminal and the FBOs sharing the field, means business aviation traffic is worked from the same apron infrastructure as scheduled flights. Private jet catering in Sentani runs through our dedicated branch to the ramp handler and the GA terminal, on the same cold chain and paperwork as an airline uplift.
Private jets →
Inflight catering rated by operators at DJJ
Operators on commercial aviation catering at Sentani (DJJ)
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
Scheduled airline
“We used tour operator charter catering at Sentani (DJJ/WAJJ) for a team charter and had a good experience. The meals were clearly labeled, portions were suitable for the group, and the delivery stayed on time despite a moving departure. 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.”
★★★★★Government flight department
Katerina — Delegation Flight Coordinator
“We needed military charter catering at Sentani (DJJ/WAJJ) for a time-sensitive operation. The meals were practical, clearly packed, and easy for the crew to distribute during the flight. A good experience under difficult timing conditions. From an operational point of view, the service was easy to manage and required very little follow-up.”
★★★★★Charter operator
Abel — Flight Operations Specialist
“We ordered cargo crew meals for a cargo rotation through Sentani (DJJ/WAJJ). Meals arrived on time and were packed practically for a working crew rather than over-presented. Simple, efficient, and on time. The order was complete on arrival and easy for us to check before closing the doors. Updates were timely and the final delivery matched the confirmation we had from operations.”
★★★★☆Charter operator
Yann — Flight Operations Supervisor
Station data for airport catering at Sentani (WAJJ / DJJ)
| Datum | Value |
|---|---|
| Longest runway | 3,000 m |
| Runways | 1 |
| Aerodrome reference code | wide-body |
| ICAO | WAJJ |
Business jet catering questions at Sentani, Indonesia
Technical stop catering questions at Sentani, Indonesia
What operations gets asked every week about Sentani.
Ask operations directly →Does airline catering cost the same for every flight through Sentani?
Every quotation is built on the cabin count, the specification and the loading window booked for that rotation, since we do not publish a fixed airline catering cost list. The Sentani desk returns a quotation once those three details are confirmed.
Is airline catering delivered airside at Sentani Airport?
The loading coordinator takes the sealed cart from our kitchen to the stand under escort, using hi-loader boarding to galley height rather than leaving airline catering at the foot of the aircraft. Airside delivery is booked against the slot, not arranged after the aircraft is on stand.
How far ahead can halal, kosher and SPML sets be confirmed for DJJ?
Household and religious meal standards govern how these sets are produced, with halal and kosher runs kept on a separate line from the standard tray. Special meals under the full IATA SPML codes can be confirmed up to the same cut-off as the rest of the specification, and changed later only by exception.
WAJJ requires how much lead time before a specification can still change?
The cart itself is what carries the final specification once sealed, so how far in advance an order is placed decides how much room is left to adjust it. As a working rule, earlier confirmation keeps more of the loading window open; changes requested close to departure are handled as exceptions rather than the norm.
At what point does private jet catering reach the FBOs at Sentani?
The order is confirmed with our desk first, then released to the GA terminal and the ramp handler once the aircraft's slot and cabin configuration are set. Private jet catering and FBO catering then move on the same cold chain and paperwork as an airline uplift, with delivery timed to the requested slot.
Who signs off VIP, VVIP and government flight catering at Sentani Airport?
For every movement in this category, a named, security-cleared coordinator signs the load under written protocol, from the kitchen seal to the galley door. VIP flight catering and government flight catering at Sentani follow that same chain of custody whether the aircraft is a delegation, a household movement or a private airliner.
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Charter flight catering quote for Sentani
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Four steps
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Offloading
Return leg, if any
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Contact
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Uplift at Sentani (DJJ)