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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — Cabatuan, Philippines
VIP & private jet catering with airline catering at Cabatuan (RPVI / ILO)
ILO (IATA) · RPVI (ICAO)
Into Cabatuan, the wide-body reference code sets what boards here: full three-cabin uplift, worked to a hi-loader standard rather than a stand-side handover. Inflight catering moves from our kitchen to the galley door under one seal, and in-flight catering for a diverted or ad hoc rotation runs on the same ops desk that plans the scheduled uplift.
2,500 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 — Cabatuan
Hi-loader aviation catering on the Cabatuan airport apron
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Inflight catering lead times at Cabatuan airport
Flight catering sealed and logged to the stand at ILO
Ramp access at Cabatuan is what sets the pace of a catering uplift: sealed carts move from our kitchen to the apron in a fixed sequence, not on an improvised run. The hi-loader positions to galley height so the transfer at the galley door is a lift, not a hand-carry across the stand. Every rotation is worked against that same apron routing, whatever the aircraft type on the stand.
Between our kitchen and the stand at ILO sit screening, an escort through airside, and the ordinary traffic of the apron, and the catering uplift is planned against the worst of the three rather than the best. That is why the chain of custody starts at the kitchen door, not at the aircraft: every cart is sealed there, logged, and handed to an escorted convoy under a single reference. Temperature is read at sealing and read again at the galley catering handover, with both figures kept against the same seal number so a discrepancy is caught before it reaches the aircraft.
One seal, one convoy, one signature: that is the whole loading window.
Flight kitchen and crew meals for Cabatuan (ILO)
Pilot meals and cleared production crews for RPVI
The flight kitchen that provisions airport catering at RPVI runs hot production, pastry and a cold larder under one roof, with a protocol line held apart from the general run. That layout is what lets airport catering at Cabatuan move a full wide-body order and a small VIP order through the same building without either one waiting on the other. Everything leaving the kitchen for flight kitchen dispatch is built to HACCP, logged before it is sealed, and tracked on the cold chain from that point to the galley door.
The team behind government flight catering at Cabatuan is the same named crew on every rotation, not a rotating pool drawn in for the day. Each member carries a security clearance on file and sits on the access list before a sealed uplift is scheduled, so no new face has to be cleared against the calendar. They are trained to the household standards a protocol movement expects, and to the paperwork that has to travel with the load rather than follow it.
Halal airline meals and special meals at Cabatuan, Philippines
Royal flight catering standards per cabin at Cabatuan airport
Menus at Cabatuan are written chef-side to the cabin and the mission rather than issued from one fixed book, so a government rotation and a scheduled wide-body departure are not served from the same plan. Where the Philippines gives a regional angle, it is worked through general produce categories, dairy, fish and orchard fruit, rather than a named dish or a named supplier. Inflight catering at ILO documents allergen, halal, kosher and medical sets per passenger and per cabin, filed against the manifest before boarding, not adjusted at the stand. The cycle turns with the season, while the tray standard behind it stays constant across the rotation.
First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins at Cabatuan are plated to a written specification rather than a fixed menu card, with caviar and à-la-carte service available on request against that same file. VIP flight catering here keeps the presentation filed against the standing order, so a repeat rotation is served exactly as the last one was.
Business cabins
Business cabins at RPVI run a multi-choice hot service built to cabin specification, in oven-ready formats sized to the galley fitted on the aircraft. Crew meals, cabin crew meals and pilot meals travel in the same tray sets and meal boxes, boxed to the roster rather than to a generic count.
Protocol & dietary
Protocol and dietary requirements at ILO are documented per passenger, covering halal and kosher sets alongside the full range of IATA special meal codes rather than a shortened list. Inflight catering for these sets is produced on a separate line and sealed before it leaves that line, so a religious or medical requirement never shares a tray with the general 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 RPVI / ILO
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 Cabatuan
With one runway and a wide-body reference code, RPVI is worked as a station where a single stand carries the full mix rather than sorting traffic across parallel aprons; a delegation on that stand is a documentation problem before it is a food problem, and a peak wave against one stand is a capacity problem the loading plan has to absorb rather than spread. That mix is why airline catering at Cabatuan and airport catering at Cabatuan are planned from the same board, stand by stand, instead of two separate desks working past each other.
The uplift reaches the aircraft from our kitchen by sealed cart, escorted across the apron and lifted to galley height at the stand, so nothing is handed up loose from the ramp. Aviation catering in Philippines depends on that same ramp routing whatever the mission on the stand, and in-flight catering at RPVI is loaded in the order the galley requires rather than the order the cart happens to reach the aircraft.
On this station we commit to one coordinator carrying the rotation end to end, sealed carts logged before departure from the kitchen, and a signed handover at the aircraft closing the load.
VVIP catering alongside scheduled flights at Cabatuan airport
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Government and state flight catering at Cabatuan
The 2500 metre runway at RPVI sets what a state movement can bring in, and that constraint is what the protocol file is built around before catering at RPVI is even scheduled. Government flight catering for delegations and state visits here runs on a protocol file documented per passenger, security-cleared staff on the load, and an uplift sealed before it leaves the kitchen, with a head of state movement worked to the same standing file rather than a one-off plan.
Government & state flights →
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at Cabatuan
We hold the wide-body reference code at Cabatuan against a single household specification, so a royal household rotation is worked to the same file whichever aircraft type the movement uses. Royal flight catering here covers private airliners, BBJ, ACJ and wide-body VVIP alike, with halal and other household requirements produced on request against that same file kept between movements.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at RPVI
Wide-body is the reference code governing every stand at Cabatuan, and that single code is what lets a charter operator load the same full uplift a scheduled carrier would. Charter flight catering at Cabatuan covers ACMI and wet-lease operators, group movements and special missions, with charter flight catering staged in the order the galleys are laid out and counted against the loading sheet before departure.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at Cabatuan
A single wide-body reference code governs every stand here, which forces a loading plan built around one sequence rather than several parallel ones. Ad hoc airline catering at Cabatuan covers carriers running this station as an outstation, with outstation catering, diversion catering and technical stop catering worked off one duty roster, AOG included, across a multi-leg rotation, and crew meals in the Philippines carried on the same manifest as the passenger load.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at Cabatuan
A business aircraft using the same wide-body reference code as the scheduled traffic here is boarded from the GA terminal side of the field rather than from a separate facility. Private jet catering in the Philippines runs through our dedicated branch, delivered to the FBOs on the field on the same cold chain and the same paperwork as an airline uplift, business aviation catering and business jet catering included.
Private jets →
Charter flight catering reviewed at Cabatuan (ILO)
Operators on commercial aviation catering at Cabatuan (ILO)
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
Scheduled airline
“We were looking for a dependable airline ops catering supplier in Cabatuan (ILO/RPVI) and the process was straightforward. They understood airline operations and kept communication short, clear, and useful. Very convenient for operational coverage. From an operational point of view, the service was easy to manage and required very little follow-up.”
★★★★★Scheduled airline
Fiona — Operations Support Coordinator
“We used the service for private jet catering in Cabatuan on a VIP rotation through ILO/RPVI. Everything arrived fresh, well presented, and easy for the cabin crew to organize before boarding. We had a smooth experience from order to delivery. Updates were timely and the final delivery matched the confirmation we had from operations.”
★★★★★Scheduled airline
Valentina — Station Operations Supervisor
“For our flight from Cabatuan (ILO/RPVI), the cabin order included multiple special meals. The team confirmed the dietary details carefully and there was no confusion when the order arrived. A good experience with complex dietary requests. The final handover was simple and there was nothing for the crew to correct before departure.”
★★★★☆Private jet operator
Lea — Executive Flight Manager
Airport catering facts for Cabatuan (RPVI / ILO)
| Datum | Value |
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| Longest runway | 2,500 m |
| Runways | 1 |
| Aerodrome reference code | wide-body |
| ICAO | RPVI |
Business jet catering questions at Cabatuan, Philippines
Technical stop catering questions at Cabatuan, Philippines
What operations gets asked every week about Cabatuan.
Ask operations directly →Whose lead time governs a change of specification at RPVI?
For a scheduled rotation the lead time runs from booking, and how far in advance a specification can still move depends on the cabin count; last minute airline catering is handled where the kitchen slot allows it.
Which route does airline catering take to reach the aircraft at Cabatuan?
The hi-loader lifts the sealed cart straight to galley height, so airside delivery here is a boarding lift rather than a ramp hand-carry.
Does the flight kitchen at Cabatuan Airport produce halal, kosher and the full range of special meals?
Every passenger requiring a special meal code gets a dish produced on a separate line, documented against the SPML on the manifest, halal and kosher included.
Where is the protocol record kept for VIP flight catering at ILO?
The record sits with the sealed uplift itself, carrying the security file from kitchen to aircraft, so government flight catering and VVIP movements are provable at handover rather than after the fact.
Outstation catering near Cabatuan
BCD / RPVB
Bacolod City
Philippines · 58 km from Cabatuan
Airline & VIP flight catering →
EUQ / RPVS
San Jose
Philippines · 62 km from Cabatuan
Airline & VIP flight catering →
RXS / RPVR
Roxas City
Philippines · 90 km from Cabatuan
Airline & VIP flight catering →
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