Aviation catering — Heho, Myanmar

Private jet catering, VIP flight catering and airline catering at Heho (VYHH / HEH)

HEH (IATA) · VYHH (ICAO)

A single wide-body reference code at Heho lets us board a full three-cabin aircraft here without stepping down to a smaller class of service. Inflight catering, in-flight catering and the hi-loader uplift that reaches galley height run from one ramp-side operation, so a wide-body rotation at VYHH is boarded, not delivered.

A catering hi-loader raised to the forward galley door of a wide-body on stand, the platform level with the doorway and the truck squared up beneath it.
2,591 m
Longest runway
Wide-body
Largest aircraft handled
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Runways
01
Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
02
VIP at any volume
8 First covers or 400 passengers across three cabins, same execution
03
24/7 order desk
Ad hoc, AOG and same-day uplift answered around the clock
04
Multi-leg coordination
One loading sheet, every leg of your rotation
A catering hi-loader raised to the aft galley door of a wide-body on stand, its platform level with the doorway and a second truck waiting below.

On the apron — Heho

Hi-loader boarding for inflight catering at VYHH / HEH

Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.

Aviation catering timeline, order to boarding, at Heho

Flight catering sealed and logged to the stand at Heho, Myanmar

Ramp access is what actually sets the loading window at Heho, not the distance on a map. Once the sealed cart clears the apron, the hi-loader takes the catering uplift straight to galley height rather than to the foot of the aircraft. That single step removes the handling stage most stations still leave to a ground trolley.

Four branded catering carts latched side by side in an aircraft galley, each door closed on a coloured seal.

Between our kitchen and the wide-body stand at Heho sit screening, an escort and apron traffic, and we plan every catering uplift against the worst of those three rather than the best. Temperatures are logged when the load is sealed and logged again at handover, so the record travels with the galley catering rather than trailing it on paper afterwards. That chain of custody is signed off before the hi-loader lifts away from the ramp at VYHH.

One coordinator owns the load from the kitchen seal to the galley signature.

Flight kitchen and crew meals for HEH

Trays of individual pastries lined up on a stainless bench beside the racks they were baked on.

Cleared crews behind government flight catering at VYHH / HEH

Airport catering at Heho runs from one flight kitchen holding hot production, pastry, a cold larder and a protocol line under a single roof. That layout lets airport catering at HEH move a delegation and a scheduled rotation through the same building without either queue slowing the other. HACCP procedure governs every stage the food passes through before it is sealed for the wide-body stand.

The team behind government flight catering at Heho is the same named crew on every rotation, not a rotating pool pulled in for one movement. Security clearance is on file for each of them, they sit on the access list for the airside route, and they are trained to household service standards for the paperwork that has to travel with a sealed uplift. That continuity is what a protocol desk is actually checking for.

Halal airline meals and special meals at VYHH

VIP flight catering, specified per passenger at Heho

Menus at Heho are written to the cabin and the mission before they are written to anything else, with a VIP flight menu and a charter flight menu held as separate specifications rather than one card stretched across both. Where local sourcing is used, it draws on produce native to Myanmar — orchard fruit, dairy and freshwater fish among them — worked into a seasonal rotation rather than a fixed list. Inflight catering here is documented per passenger for allergen, halal, kosher and medical sets, not left to a verbal note at boarding. Every tray is labelled to that record before it leaves the kitchen for the stand.

Sliced roast pork in gravy with cauliflower, a pressed terrine and a herb oil trail across the plate.

First & VVIP cabins

First and VVIP cabins at Heho are plated to a written specification, with caviar service and à-la-carte options available on request rather than fixed to one set menu. This is VIP flight catering held to the same specification on every rotation through VYHH, not reinvented each time.

A complete tray set on a black tray: sliced beef fillet in gravy with piped mash and vegetables, a seeded roll with herb butter and a berry dessert in a glass.

Business cabins

Business cabins at HEH take multi-choice hot service in oven-ready formats sized to the galley fitted to the aircraft, boarded in tray sets rather than plated individually. Crew meals, cabin crew meals and pilot meals are boxed separately to the roster in Heho, so the flight deck set never mixes with the cabin service.

Diet.

Protocol & dietary

Household, religious and medical requirements are documented per passenger at Heho, covering halal and kosher sets alongside the full range of special meal codes used across inflight catering. Each of those sets is produced on a separate line and sealed before it leaves that line for the stand.

The three books

A tray set on a stainless steel bench: a plated fish fillet with rice and vegetables, a bread roll with herb butter, and a berry dessert in a glass.

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Royal & Government Flights

Royal households · government · state operations

  • Plated service · First to main cabin
  • Protocol handling · security clearance
Chefs plating a long line of identical main courses under heat lamps, with loaded catering trolleys waiting at the end of the line.

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Charter & Commercial

Charter · ACMI · group · scheduled · ad hoc

  • 400 passengers · one uplift
  • HACCP cold chain, logged to the galley door
A business jet cabin credenza laid with chilled sparkling wine in a bucket, bottled drinks, a nut dish and folded napkins on a silver tray, beside a single passenger seat.

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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 Heho 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 Heho (HEH)

Heho carries scheduled, charter and government traffic across a single wide-body reference code, which means a delegation movement and a repeat scheduled rotation are worked through the same stand rather than segregated by size. That mix turns documentation into the recurring issue here, since a state or VIP movement adds a paperwork load a routine rotation does not carry, even when both use the same wide-body handling.

The uplift reaches the aircraft by hi-loader from our kitchen to the ramp, boarded to galley height rather than set down at the foot of the aircraft, with our own crew on the apron for the full sequence. Airline catering in Heho, aviation catering in Heho and both in-flight catering in Heho and inflight catering in Heho run off that one ramp-side sequence rather than off separate handling for each segment. Airport catering at VYHH is planned stand by stand against that same reference code.

One coordinator carries the rotation from kitchen seal to signed handover, on sealed carts, regardless of which of those segments is flying that day.

Scheduled, charter and VVIP catering at VYHH / HEH

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Government and state flight catering at HEH
A wide-body reference code forces every movement through Heho onto the same stand handling, which means a delegation cannot be separated onto a smaller apron for privacy and instead has to be worked into the standard rotation. Government flight catering for a head of state aircraft or an official delegation is planned around that constraint: protocol documented per passenger, security-cleared staff on the load, and the uplift sealed before it leaves the kitchen.
Government & state flights →
Royal vvip food.
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at Heho
One wide-body reference code, and that single fact decides whether a private airliner boards here on the same terms as a scheduled aircraft rather than on a reduced one. Royal flight catering and the wider VVIP standard both draw on that same wide-body handling for BBJ, ACJ and private airliner movements, held to a written household specification kept on file between rotations, with halal and household requirements produced on request.
Royal & VVIP flights →
Menus card charter comm copie.
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at VYHH
Our kitchen loads a full three-cabin specification onto the wide-body stand at Heho, and that capacity is what makes charter flight catering workable for group movements rather than only for single-aircraft bookings. Charter flight catering here also covers ACMI and wet-lease operators and special missions, counted against the loading sheet and staged in the order the galleys are laid out at VYHH.
Wide-body charter →
A complete tray set on a black tray: a hot egg and ham dish, cut fruit, breads, a pastry, a set yoghurt and a portion of preserve.
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Airline and ad hoc catering at HEH
At a station holding a 2591 m runway, a wide-body rotation can turn here rather than divert onward, and that keeps ad hoc airline catering in reach for a carrier that only touches VYHH occasionally. Outstation catering, diversion catering and technical stop catering all run off the same duty roster, AOG included, across a multi-leg pattern, with crew meals in Myanmar boxed to the same standard as the passenger cabin. Menu cycles shift week to week; the tray standard behind ad hoc airline catering at HEH and crew meals at Heho does not.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at Heho
A 2591 m runway at Heho is long enough to keep business aviation moving alongside the scheduled and charter traffic that shares the same wide-body stand. Private jet catering in Myanmar, run through our dedicated branch, reaches the FBOs on the field and the GA terminal on the same cold chain and the same paperwork as an airline uplift, kept deliberately brief against the commercial operation above it.
Private jets →

Inflight catering trusted by operators at Heho

Operators on commercial aviation catering at HEH

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Government flight department

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Royal household

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Charter operator

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Scheduled airline

“We requested airline catering IATA standards at Heho (HEH/VYHH) and the packaging worked very well onboard. The order came ready for service with no unnecessary packaging or loose items to sort through. Good attention to the operational side of catering. Responses were quick whenever we had a question, which helped us keep the flight on schedule.”

★★★★★

Private jet operator

Viktor — Private Flight Coordinator

“For a changing schedule at Heho (HEH/VYHH), we needed flexible ACMI. Communication between dispatch, handling, and catering was clear throughout. Good support for a changing flight schedule. Responses were quick whenever we had a question, which helped us keep the flight on schedule. The order was complete on arrival and easy for us to check before closing the doors.”

★★★★☆

Charter operator

Emily — Charter Operations Executive

“I ordered private jet menu for our departure from Heho (HEH/VYHH) and was very happy with the service. They followed my notes closely, kept me updated, and delivered at the time agreed with the FBO. A very good experience from a flight attendant perspective. The order was complete on arrival and easy for us to check before closing the doors.”

★★★★☆

Scheduled airline

Mauro — Outstation Manager

Airport catering profile for Heho (VYHH / HEH)

DatumValue
Longest runway2,591 m
Runways1
Aerodrome reference codewide-body
ICAOVYHH

Aircraft catering questions at VYHH

Pilot meals and loading questions at VYHH

What operations gets asked every week about Heho.

Ask operations directly →
Given the household and religious requirements a rotation can carry, does Heho airport produce halal, kosher and the IATA special meal codes, and how are they documented?

There are separate halal and kosher lines at Heho, run alongside the full range of special meal codes, with every tray logged per passenger before it leaves the kitchen.

At what point does airline catering cost at HEH actually get fixed, since no price list is published?

The first step is the cabin count and specification the ops desk submits; from there the loading window and any special meal load are priced together and returned as one quotation.

VYHH — do you deliver private jet catering to the FBOs and the GA terminal on this field?

The same hi-loader and sealed cart used for a scheduled aircraft also carry FBO catering to the GA terminal, on the same cold chain and paperwork as an airline uplift.

Whose crew actually gets the tray onto the aircraft at Heho, and how does it get there?

Across every rotation here, airline catering is boarded by airside delivery on a hi-loader lifted to galley height, never set down at the foot of the aircraft.

Jet catering at airports near Heho

NMS / VYNS
Namsang
Myanmar · 99 km from Heho
Airline & VIP flight catering →
LIW / VYLK
Loikaw
Myanmar · 125 km from Heho
Airline & VIP flight catering →
MDL / VYMD
Mandalay
Myanmar · 136 km from Heho
Airline & VIP flight catering →

Charter flight catering quote for Heho (HEH)

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Heho (HEH / VYHH)

Give us the aircraft and what goes on board. A coordinator comes back with a quote for Heho, 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

Step 1 of 4 · Flight

Flight

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Offloading

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Offloading required
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Uplift at Heho (HEH)