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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — Butuan, Philippines
Wide-body airline catering, VIP flight catering and private jet catering at Butuan (RPME / BXU)
BXU (IATA) · RPME (ICAO)
The single narrow-body reference code held at Butuan sets the frame every uplift here is planned against, from a scheduled rotation to a diverted wide-body movement needing hi-loader boarding at short notice. AERO GOURMET runs inflight catering, in-flight catering and aviation catering off one ops desk at this station, boarding First, Business and main cabin directly at galley height rather than leaving trays at the foot of the aircraft.
2,096 m
Longest runway
Narrow-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 — Butuan
Hi-loader boarding for inflight catering at Butuan, Philippines
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Aircraft catering lead times at RPME
Flight catering sealed and logged to the stand at Butuan
Catering uplift at Butuan runs on a fixed sequence rather than a guess: carts sealed at the kitchen, moved under ramp access held on our own clearance, and presented at the galley door in the order the cabin plan requires. Every stage on the apron is logged the same way, whatever the aircraft or the mission behind it. What the timeline below shows is that sequence, station by station, not an estimate of it.
Between our kitchen and the stand at Butuan sit screening, an escort requirement and apron traffic that shifts with the day's movements, and chain of custody is planned against the worst of those three rather than the average. Every cart that leaves the galley carries a temperature log opened at sealing and closed again at handover, so the same reading that left the kitchen is the one an ops desk can check on arrival. A signed handover closes each load, which is what turns catering uplift into a documented step rather than a delivery nobody can trace back through the galley.
One coordinator carries a load from sealed kitchen cart to signed aircraft handover.
Flight kitchen and crew meals for Butuan
Airline food supplier crews cleared for BXU
Butuan's single runway carries scheduled, charter and government traffic through one narrow-body reference point, and airport catering here is provisioned from a kitchen built to serve that whole mix rather than one segment of it. Hot production, pastry, a cold larder and a protocol line sit under one roof, run to HACCP standards so a delegation cart and a scheduled tray set leave the same door on the same discipline. Airport catering at Butuan is planned around that single facility, not split across separate kitchens for separate customers.
The team that handles government flight catering here is the same named crew on every rotation, not a rotating pool assigned case by case. Each member carries security clearance on file, sits on the access list for sealed movements, and is trained to the household standards a royal or state cabin expects. That continuity is what lets a delegation return to catering at RPME and find the same procedure, the same paperwork and the same faces on the ramp.
VIP flight catering and dietary sets at Butuan (BXU)
VVIP catering to a written specification at RPME
Menus for BXU departures are written to the cabin and the mission first, and only then to the season, so a First cabin cart and a crew set leaving the same rotation are built to two different specifications rather than one softened compromise. Local sourcing draws on the produce of the Philippines where the flight plan allows it — fish, tropical fruit, rice staples — worked into a specification rather than into a fixed dish. Inflight catering here is documented per passenger for allergen, halal, kosher and medical sets, labelled by cabin so a crew can match a tray to a name without opening it. Nothing served under one heading crosses into another cabin's cart by mistake.
First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins departing Butuan are plated to a written specification held on file between rotations, with à-la-carte and caviar service available on request rather than fixed to one fixed menu. VIP flight catering here is signed off against that specification before the cart leaves the kitchen, so the presentation an operator approved is the one that boards.
Business cabins
Business cabins at BXU take a multi-choice hot service built into oven-ready tray sets sized to the galley fitted to the aircraft, so nothing is reheated against the wrong equipment. Crew meals travel in the same run: cabin crew meals and pilot meals are boxed and labelled to the roster rather than to a generic count.
Protocol & dietary
Protocol and dietary requirements for Butuan movements are documented per passenger before the cart is built, covering halal, kosher, household and medical sets against the full range of IATA special meal codes. Inflight catering under this heading is produced on a separate line and sealed there, so a religious or medical set never shares a tray with a standard one.
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 compliance at RPME
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 RPME / BXU
Butuan works scheduled, charter and government traffic through a single narrow-body reference point, which keeps the operating picture simple but not slack: a government or delegation movement still carries the same documentation load as it would on a busier field, and a charter arriving off-schedule still needs a full cabin turned in the same window as a scheduled service. That mix is what airline catering at this station is planned against, not a fixed daily pattern.
Uplift reaches the aircraft from our kitchen by sealed cart, moved under ramp access held on our own clearance rather than negotiated per movement, and boarded by hi-loader direct to the galley door on the stand assigned for that rotation. Inflight catering, in-flight catering and aviation catering run off that one route and one ops desk, so a crew checking status gets one answer rather than several depending on who they ask. Airport catering at Butuan is planned stand by stand rather than terminal-wide, which is what keeps a diversion or a short-notice charter from disrupting the rotation booked either side of it.
One coordinator carries each load from the seal at the kitchen to the signature at the aircraft, whatever the segment behind the booking.
Aviation catering for five mission types at Butuan, Philippines
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Government and state flight catering at RPME
At a station holding one runway and one narrow-body reference code, a head of state movement is planned with the same discipline a scheduled airline turnaround gets, not a separate improvised process. Government flight catering at Butuan covers state visits and official delegations, with the protocol file documented per passenger, security-cleared staff on the load, and the uplift sealed before it leaves catering at BXU.
Government & state flights →
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at BXU
Loading a private airliner through Butuan's single wide-body-capable stand means sequencing the household cabin ahead of every other cart on that rotation, not fitting it in around a standard schedule. Royal flight catering here covers BBJ, ACJ and wide-body VVIP movements, held to a written household specification kept on file between visits, with halal and other household dietary requirements produced against that same file on request.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at Butuan
2096 metres of runway, and that single figure sets what can be turned through Butuan on a charter rotation without a fuel-load compromise. Charter flight catering at this station covers ACMI and wet-lease operators, group movements and special missions, with a full three-cabin uplift counted against the loading sheet and staged in the order the galleys are laid out; charter flight catering in Butuan runs on that same sheet whatever the operator behind the booking.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at RPME
A single-aisle aircraft working an outstation rotation through Butuan's one narrow-body reference point still needs a full cabin turned inside the same window a hub station would give it. Ad hoc airline catering covers carriers running this station as an outstation, with outstation catering, diversion catering and technical stop catering worked off one duty roster; AOG cover sits alongside them, and crew meals in the Philippines travel on the same manifest as the passenger load across a multi-leg rotation.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at BXU
We provision the GA side of Butuan's single narrow-body-capable stand on the same cold chain and paperwork as any airline rotation booked that day. Private jet catering at RPME reaches the FBOs on the field and the GA terminal directly, so a business aviation movement gets the same sealed handover a scheduled cabin does, without a separate lower standard for the ramp it parks on.
Private jets →
Charter flight catering trusted at RPME
Ops desks on aviation catering at Butuan airport
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
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Scheduled airline
“For a last-minute requirement at Butuan (BXU/RPME), we contacted them as our airline catering broker. One contact handled the order from confirmation through delivery, which saved our dispatch team a lot of follow-up. Very convenient for operational coverage. From an operational point of view, the service was easy to manage and required very little follow-up.”
★★★★☆Private jet operator
Camila — Cabin Operations Lead
“We used the service for airline catering in Butuan on a VIP rotation through BXU/RPME. The menu selection was good and all special requests were clearly identified. We had a smooth experience from order to delivery. Responses were quick whenever we had a question, which helped us keep the flight on schedule.”
★★★★★Government flight department
Katerina — Mission Operations Manager
“For our flight from Butuan (BXU/RPME), the cabin order included multiple halal airline meals. All requirements were followed and the cabin crew could see immediately which meal belonged to which passenger. A good experience with complex dietary requests. Updates were timely and the final delivery matched the confirmation we had from operations.”
★★★★★Charter operator
Julien — Flight Planning Manager
Station data for airport catering at Butuan (RPME / BXU)
| Datum | Value |
|---|---|
| Longest runway | 2,096 m |
| Runways | 1 |
| Aerodrome reference code | narrow-body |
| ICAO | RPME |
Business jet catering questions at Butuan (BXU)
Diversion catering and ramp questions at Butuan (BXU)
What operations gets asked every week about Butuan.
Ask operations directly →Does Butuan get airline catering delivered airside, and how does the uplift reach the aircraft?
Every load at this station moves by sealed cart to the stand and boards by hi-loader direct to the galley door, so airside delivery never stops at the foot of the aircraft.
How far does private jet catering reach on the Butuan field, including the FBOs and the GA terminal?
Our clearance covers every FBO on the field and the GA terminal itself, so private jet catering and FBO catering here run on the same cold chain and the same paperwork as a scheduled airline load.
At which point in the process do VIP, VVIP and government flights get handled differently at BXU?
The difference starts before the cart is built: VIP flight catering and government flight catering both follow a written protocol file, cleared staff and a sealed handover, ahead of anything else on the loading sheet.
RPME production covers halal, kosher and the IATA special meal codes — how are they documented?
Sealed carts, coded by passenger against the full range of SPML options, carry halal, kosher and other special meals produced on a separate line from the standard cabin sets.
How far in advance does an order need to be placed for a Butuan rotation, and how late can it change?
There is a standing lead time for a full specification change and a shorter window for a quantity adjustment or an added special meal, both worked against the loading window for that stand.
Whose specification decides what airline catering costs at Butuan?
For every quote, cabin count, the chosen specification and the loading window set the price; there is no published list, and the desk comes back with a figure once those three are known.
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