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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — Kathmandu, Nepal
Private jet catering, VIP flight catering and airline catering at Kathmandu (VNKT / KTM)
KTM (IATA) · VNKT (ICAO)
The wide-body reference code held at Kathmandu allows a full-body aircraft onto a single stand, and that stand takes hi-loader boarding straight to galley height rather than a delivery left at the foot of the aircraft. Inflight catering and in-flight catering here move from a sealed cart to three cabins without touching the tarmac, uplift by uplift, rotation after rotation.
3,350 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 — Kathmandu
Aviation catering boarded by hi-loader at Kathmandu
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Airport catering order window at Kathmandu airport
Aircraft catering sealed from kitchen to galley at KTM
Ramp access at Kathmandu is what turns a catering uplift into a timed sequence rather than a queue on the apron. Every cart is sealed at the kitchen, driven under escort to the stand and raised by hi-loader straight to the galley door, so the load reaches the aircraft in the order the cabins need it. Nothing on that route is estimated: the window is held the same way on every rotation through Kathmandu.
Between our kitchen and the stand at Kathmandu sit screening, an escort convoy and apron traffic, and the loading plan is built against the worst case among them rather than the average one. Chain of custody runs from the seal placed on the cart at the kitchen to the signature taken at the galley door, with nothing handled outside that record. Galley catering is logged twice on temperature, once at sealing and once at handover, so a delay shows up as a number rather than a guess, and the catering uplift itself never leaves that documented route.
One seal at the kitchen, one signature at the galley door, nothing in between.
Flight kitchen and crew meals for Kathmandu (KTM)
Cargo crew meals produced to the same standard at VNKT
Airport catering at Kathmandu is planned from a single flight kitchen rather than split across suppliers, which keeps hot production, pastry, a cold larder and a protocol line answerable to one schedule. That structure is what lets airport catering in Nepal put a wide-body rotation and a smaller movement through the same kitchen without either one waiting on the other. The flight kitchen at KTM works to that sequence on every shift, not only on the days traffic is heavy.
The team that handles government flight catering at Kathmandu is the same named crew on every rotation, not a roster drawn fresh each time. Security clearance is held on file for each of them, access to the protocol line is limited to that list, and household service standards are trained into the crew rather than briefed on the day. That continuity is what a chain of custody depends on once a sealed uplift leaves the kitchen for the stand.
Halal airline meals and special meals at Kathmandu, Nepal
Royal flight catering standards per cabin at Kathmandu airport
Menus at Kathmandu are written to the cabin and the mission first, then adjusted for season, so a business rotation and a VVIP movement are never worked from the same fixed list. Regional produce from Nepal, dairy, orchard fruit and freshwater fish among it, sits alongside menus built for a longer sector, and both are planned before the loading window opens rather than assembled against it. Inflight catering at KTM is documented per passenger for allergen, halal, kosher and medical sets, each one labelled to the cabin it boards. That documentation travels with the tray set, not as a separate note the crew has to chase.
First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins at Kathmandu carry VIP flight catering plated to a written specification rather than assembled on the stand, with caviar and à-la-carte service available on request. The presentation is filed against the standing order, so a repeat rotation is served the same way it was the first time.
Business cabins
Business cabins at VNKT run multi-choice hot service to a written cabin specification, boxed into oven-ready formats sized to the galley fitted on the aircraft. Crew meals, cabin crew meals and pilot meals are boxed separately to the roster, so the flight deck set never mixes with the cabin trays.
Protocol & dietary
Protocol and dietary requirements at Kathmandu are documented per passenger rather than assumed from the manifest, covering halal, kosher, religious and medical sets against the full range of IATA special meal codes. Inflight catering built to those codes is produced on a separate line and sealed before it joins 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
Aircraft catering under HACCP control at Kathmandu (KTM)
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 Kathmandu
Kathmandu carries scheduled, charter, government and VIP traffic across a single wide-body stand, and that mix turns catering into a documentation exercise as often as a volume one: a delegation needs the protocol file in order before the food does, while a repeat charter rotation needs the same tray set to match itself week after week. Airport catering here is planned stand by stand rather than terminal by terminal, because the stand is the constraint that governs everything else.
The uplift leaves our flight kitchen by sealed cart, moves under escort across the apron, and reaches the aircraft by hi-loader raised to galley height rather than left at the foot of the door. Airline catering in Nepal and aviation catering in Kathmandu both run off that same route, with ramp access held on our own badges rather than borrowed for the day. Inflight catering at Kathmandu and in-flight catering in Nepal are coordinated from one ops desk, so a diversion or a late change is worked from the same file as the scheduled load.
One coordinator carries the rotation from seal to signature, with the handover recorded at the galley door.
Scheduled, charter and VVIP catering at Kathmandu
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Government and state flight catering at Kathmandu
Any load bound for a head of state aircraft has to be sequenced ahead of the wide-body reference code's ordinary rotation, not folded into it, which is what government flight catering at Kathmandu is built around. Protocol is documented per passenger, staff on the file are security-cleared, and the uplift is sealed before it leaves the kitchen for the stand.
Government & state flights →
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at VNKT
The wide-body reference code held at Kathmandu means a private airliner boards from the same stand as a scheduled service, so royal flight catering here runs to a household specification kept on file between movements rather than rebuilt each time. Private airliners, BBJ, ACJ and wide-body VIP among them, receive halal and household dietary requirements on request, boarded from the same sealed carts used for any other catering at VNKT.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at KTM
We load ACMI and wet-lease operators, group movements and special missions through the wide-body reference code held at Kathmandu, staging the full three-cabin uplift in the order the galleys are laid out. Charter flight catering at Kathmandu and charter flight catering at KTM are both counted against the loading sheet before the cart ever leaves the kitchen.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at Kathmandu
At Kathmandu, the wide-body reference code that governs the stand also governs how much ad hoc airline catering can be turned around on short notice without disrupting a scheduled load. Carriers running this station as an outstation draw on outstation catering, diversion catering and technical stop catering off the same duty roster, AOG included, across a multi-leg rotation, with crew meals boxed separately at KTM and at VNKT for every leg.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at VNKT
The 3350 m runway at Kathmandu takes business aviation movements onto the same field as the wide-body traffic, and our dedicated private jet branch delivers to the GA terminal and the FBOs on it from that shared ramp. Private jet catering in Kathmandu runs on the same cold chain and the same paperwork as an airline uplift, with FBO catering sealed at the kitchen before it leaves for the stand.
Private jets →
Charter flight catering trusted at Kathmandu airport
Operators on commercial aviation catering at Kathmandu (KTM)
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
Scheduled airline
“For our departure from Kathmandu (KTM/VNKT), we specifically needed HACCP. The trays and boxes were organized logically, which saved the cabin crew time before passengers arrived. The crew appreciated how easy it was to load. The final handover was simple and there was nothing for the crew to correct before departure.”
★★★★★Scheduled airline
Celine — Station Operations Manager
“We used the team for tech stop at Kathmandu (KTM/VNKT) during a tight turnaround. The uplift was organized around our revised departure and reached the aircraft without delaying the turn. Good support for a changing flight schedule. From an operational point of view, the service was easy to manage and required very little follow-up.”
★★★★★Private jet operator
Mehdi — Cabin Service Coordinator
“For our business jet at Kathmandu (KTM/VNKT), I arranged FBO catering with a few passenger-specific requests. 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. That made the turnaround easier for both the flight crew and the team on the ground.”
★★★★☆Charter operator
Noor — Flight Operations Coordinator
Station data for aviation catering at Kathmandu (VNKT / KTM)
| Datum | Value |
|---|---|
| Longest runway | 3,350 m |
| Runways | 1 |
| Aerodrome reference code | wide-body |
| ICAO | VNKT |
Business jet catering questions at Kathmandu, Nepal
Diversion catering and ramp questions at Kathmandu, Nepal
What operations gets asked every week about Kathmandu.
Ask operations directly →Do you know how much airline catering costs at VNKT?
Yes, by working from the cabin count, the specification and the loading window before we quote, since we do not publish a fixed price list for airline catering cost at Kathmandu.
Given the single wide-body stand at Kathmandu, can you deliver airline catering airside?
There is hi-loader access directly to the galley door at Kathmandu, so airside delivery reaches the aircraft without a handoff at the foot of the steps.
Can Kathmandu Airport handle VIP, VVIP and government flights under protocol?
The full route from sealed cart to signed handover applies to VIP flight catering and government flight catering alike, with protocol documented per passenger and cleared staff on the file.
Which lead time applies to an order placed through KTM?
The sealed cart and the hi-loader route set the working method, and within that we can still take a late change to the specification; ask how far in advance your rotation needs to be filed, since even last minute airline catering is worked from the same sequence.
How does private jet catering reach the FBOs and the GA terminal at VNKT?
VNKT routes private jet catering to the GA terminal and the FBOs on the field on the same cold chain as an airline uplift, with FBO catering sealed at the kitchen before dispatch.
Inflight catering at other airports near Kathmandu
JKR / VNJP
Janakpur
Nepal · 123 km from Kathmandu
Airline & VIP flight catering →
LUA / VNLK
Lukla
Nepal · 135 km from Kathmandu
Airline & VIP flight catering →
PHH / VNPR
Pokhara
Nepal · 143 km from Kathmandu
Airline & VIP flight catering →
Inflight catering quote for Kathmandu
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Kathmandu (KTM / VNKT)
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Offloading
Return leg, if any
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Contact
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Uplift at Kathmandu (KTM)