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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — Mati, Philippines
Airline catering, VIP flight catering and private jet catering at Mati (RPMQ / MXI)
MXI (IATA) · RPMQ (ICAO)
Our kitchen provisions the narrow-body stand at Mati against a written loading sheet, boarding wide-body-style discipline onto every rotation this runway takes. We run inflight catering, in-flight catering and the full uplift cycle from a sealed cart through the ramp gate to the galley door, hi-loader boarding matched to the aircraft on stand, never a tray left at the foot of the aircraft.
1,625 m
Longest runway
Narrow-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 — Mati
Hi-loader boarding for inflight catering at RPMQ / MXI
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Aircraft catering lead times at MXI
Flight catering sealed and logged to the stand at RPMQ / MXI
Ramp access at Mati is the variable we plan against, not the food itself: what happens between our kitchen and the apron decides whether the uplift boards on time. A sealed cart leaves the kitchen, clears the airside gate, and is escorted across the apron to the stand under one continuous chain. The catering uplift for that rotation is logged at every one of those points, so the timeline printed against it is a record, not an estimate.
Between our kitchen and the stand at Mati sit the checkpoint, the escort and the apron traffic that any single-runway field carries at peak hours. We plan the galley catering run against the busiest of those, not the quietest, so the catering uplift still lands inside its window when the ramp is working several movements at once.
Chain of custody is kept on paper and on the cart itself: temperature is logged when the load is sealed at the kitchen and logged again at the galley door, with a signature closing each leg. Nothing moves from the sealed cart to the aircraft without that pair of readings matching, and the record travels with the rotation, not with us.
That is the standard applied to every uplift through Mati, government, charter or scheduled alike.
The seal opens once, at the galley door, and never before.
Pilot meals prepared for RPMQ rotations
Cargo crew meals produced to the same standard at Mati
From the flight kitchen at MXI, hot production, pastry, a cold larder and a protocol line run under one roof to provision Mati's narrow-body traffic. The building is organised so airport catering and airline catering share the same HACCP-run floor rather than two separate ones, which keeps the tray sets and passenger meal boxes moving on a single schedule instead of two. That single line is what lets airport catering at Mati absorb a scheduled rotation and a charter on the same afternoon without one displacing the other.
The team assigned to government flight catering at Mati is the same named crew on every rotation, not a rotating pool drawn from the wider roster. Each member holds security clearance on file, sits on the access list for the sealed area, and is trained to the household standards a protocol movement requires. That continuity is what keeps the chain of custody intact from the kitchen seal to the signature at the aircraft.
Kosher inflight catering and dietary sets at Mati airport
Royal flight catering standards per cabin at MXI
Menus at Mati are built to the cabin and to the mission before they are built to a season, so a scheduled rotation and a chartered movement do not receive the same specification by default. Where Philippine produce fits the mission profile, we draw on the country's dairy, fish and orchard fruit rather than an imported standard, adjusted for what the cabin actually calls for. Inflight catering at Mati closes on the paperwork as much as the plate: allergen, halal, kosher and medical requirements are documented per passenger and per cabin before the cart is sealed. That labelling travels with the tray set, not as a separate note added afterwards.
First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins routed through Mati are plated to a written specification rather than to a standing menu, with à-la-carte and caviar service available on request. VIP flight catering here is filed against that same specification for every repeat rotation, so presentation does not vary between one movement and the next.
Business cabins
Business cabins at RPMQ receive multi-choice hot service in oven-ready formats sized to the galley fitted to the aircraft on stand. Crew meals, cabin crew meals and pilot meals are boxed separately from the passenger tray sets and matched to the roster before the cart is sealed.
Protocol & dietary
Protocol and dietary requirements at Mati are documented per passenger rather than assumed from the cabin list, covering household, religious and medical needs alongside halal, kosher and the full set of IATA special meal codes. Inflight catering to those codes is produced on a separate line and sealed before it leaves the kitchen, keeping cross-contact away from the standard 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
HACCP standards for aviation catering at Mati 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 Mati, Philippines
Mati carries scheduled, charter and government movements across a single narrow-body-rated runway, which means a delegation arrives as a documentation load rather than a volume one: the ramp is not stretched, the paperwork is. Airline catering here is planned against that pattern, one rotation worked at a time rather than a wave handled in parallel.
The uplift leaves our flight kitchen sealed and travels to the stand under airside delivery, escorted across the apron rather than handed off at a curbside point. Inflight catering, in-flight catering and aviation catering in Mati run off that same route regardless of the flight category, with ground handling on the apron covering the aircraft side of the turnaround while our own crew stays with the cart.
One coordinator is named to the rotation from seal to signature, and airport catering in Mati closes only once that signature is on file.
Airline, charter and VVIP catering at RPMQ / MXI
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Government and state flight catering at RPMQ
A narrow-body aircraft on a state movement still carries a head of state's full protocol requirement, and the reference code at Mati is what our kitchen plans its cart count against for that profile. Government flight catering here runs on a documented file per passenger, security-cleared staff on the access list, and an uplift sealed before it leaves the kitchen for the stand.
Government & state flights →
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at MXI
Across the 1,625-metre runway at Mati, that length sets which private airliners can work this stand without a fuel-stop constraint on the loading plan. Royal flight catering and VVIP movements here are held to a written household specification kept on file between rotations, covering BBJ and ACJ configurations with halal and household requirements produced on request.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at Mati
A 1,625-metre runway sets the aircraft mix Mati can turn, which in turn sets how a charter loading sheet has to be sequenced against the galley layout on stand. Charter flight catering here covers ACMI and wet-lease operators, group movements and special missions with a full three-cabin uplift staged and counted against that sheet, the same charter flight catering standard applied whatever the mission behind it.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at RPMQ
A narrow-body reference code governs every stand at Mati, and it sets the tray-count and galley layout our kitchen plans against before the aircraft type is even confirmed. Carriers running this station as an outstation draw on ad hoc airline catering, outstation catering, diversion catering and technical stop catering off the same duty roster, with crew meals boxed for the multi-leg rotation and AOG covered on the same call.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at MXI
The 1,625-metre runway at Mati is short enough that most business aviation traffic here works from the GA apron rather than a dedicated wide-body stand, which keeps FBO delivery close to the ramp gate. Private jet catering in Mati reaches the FBOs on the field and the GA terminal on the same cold chain and the same paperwork as an airline uplift, run by our dedicated business aviation catering branch.
Private jets →
Charter flight catering reviewed at MXI
Flight departments on jet catering at RPMQ
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
Scheduled airline
“We were looking for a dependable airline catering partner in Mati (MXI/RPMQ) and the process was straightforward. The response time was good and we did not have to manage several local suppliers ourselves. We would use the service again without hesitation. That made the turnaround easier for both the flight crew and the team on the ground.”
★★★★★Charter operator
Sami — Flight Operations Coordinator
“We used the service for airline catering in Mati on a VIP rotation through MXI/RPMQ. Everything arrived fresh, well presented, and easy for the cabin crew to organize before boarding. Good local support for a VIP operation. From an operational point of view, the service was easy to manage and required very little follow-up.”
★★★★★Scheduled airline
Alex — Airport Operations Lead
“For our flight from Mati (MXI/RPMQ), the cabin order included multiple special meal codes. All requirements were followed and the cabin crew could see immediately which meal belonged to which passenger. We were happy with the accuracy of the order. Updates were timely and the final delivery matched the confirmation we had from operations.”
★★★★☆Private jet operator
Yuki — VIP Charter Manager
Station data for airport catering at Mati (RPMQ / MXI)
| Datum | Value |
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| Longest runway | 1,625 m |
| Runways | 1 |
| Aerodrome reference code | narrow-body |
| ICAO | RPMQ |
Business jet catering questions at Mati airport
Diversion catering and ramp questions at Mati airport
What operations gets asked every week about Mati.
Ask operations directly →For Mati, how far in advance must an order be placed, and how late can the specification still change?
The sealed cart is built against a cutoff before the loading window opens, and cabin counts or dietary lines can still move up to that cutoff; after it, changes travel as a documented amendment rather than a rebuild. As a rule of thumb for last-minute airline catering, the earlier the desk has the passenger list, the more of that lead time stays flexible.
How late can halal, kosher and the IATA special meal codes still be added to a Mati departure?
Clearance to produce halal and kosher trays runs on a separate line at our flight kitchen, so special meals and SPML-coded requests are accepted up to the same cutoff as the main specification and documented per passenger, not per booking class.
Who handles VIP, VVIP and government flight catering through MXI, and under what protocol?
For government flight catering and VIP flight catering alike, a named and security-cleared crew works the rotation from seal to signature, with the file documented per passenger rather than per flight.
Does RPMQ publish a fixed airline catering cost?
Every quotation is built against the cabin count, the specification and the loading window for that rotation rather than a published rate, so airline catering cost varies with those three inputs and the desk returns a figure once they are known.
Is airline catering delivered airside at Mati, and how does the uplift reach the aircraft?
The coordinator assigned to the rotation escorts the sealed cart from the kitchen across the apron to the stand, where a hi-loader lifts it to galley height rather than leaving it at the foot of the aircraft; that airside delivery method is unchanged across scheduled, charter and government traffic.
At which point does Mati private jet catering reach the FBOs and the GA terminal on the field?
The cart is sealed at our kitchen before it ever leaves for the ramp, then delivered to the FBOs on the field and the GA terminal under the same cold chain used for an airline uplift, with FBO catering handled by our dedicated business aviation branch.
Commercial aviation catering near Mati
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Airline & VIP flight catering →
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Airline & VIP flight catering →
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Airline & VIP flight catering →
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Four steps
Flight
Aircraft · stand · local time
Offloading
Return leg, if any
Order
Counts · menus · files
Contact
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