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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — Surallah, Philippines
Private jet catering, VIP flight catering and airline catering at Surallah (RPMA / AAV)
AAV (IATA) · RPMA (ICAO)
The single narrow-body reference code held at Surallah shapes every rotation we plan: with a 1340 m runway and one runway in service, uplift is sequenced tightly rather than staged across parallel stands. Aviation catering here is boarded by hi-loader to galley height wherever the airframe allows it, with wide-body volume worked airside so that inflight catering and in-flight catering both reach the cabin door on the same schedule.
1,340 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 — Surallah
Aviation catering boarded by hi-loader at RPMA / AAV
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Inflight catering order window for Surallah airport departures
Aircraft catering handover at the galley door, AAV
With one runway carrying the whole schedule, ramp access at Surallah is booked to the rotation rather than shared across a bank of stands. Every catering uplift moves as a single sealed movement from our kitchen door to the aircraft, timed against the same slot that governs pushback. The apron here rewards a tight, single-file sequence over a wide one, and that is how the load is planned.
Between our kitchen and the aircraft at AAV sit screening, an escort onto the apron, and the queue a single-runway field creates when more than one movement is due close together. We plan the galley catering run against that queue rather than around it, holding the seal on the cart until the escort is ready to move. Chain of custody is kept unbroken from the kitchen door to the galley: one named handler carries it, the temperature is logged at sealing and again at handover, and the catering uplift closes with a signature at the aircraft, not a note left on a trolley.
One seal, one escort, one signature: nothing about the load is left to guesswork.
Pilot meals and cabin service produced for AAV
Airline food supplier crews cleared for RPMA
Airport catering in Surallah runs from a kitchen built to feed a single-runway field rather than a wide dispersed apron, which means production is planned around one rotation at a time instead of several in parallel. HACCP governs every stage from intake to sealing, and the same production line holds hot cooking, a cold larder and a protocol cell for documentation under one roof. Airport catering in Philippines at this scale depends less on floor space than on the discipline of the sequence, and that sequence is what the flight kitchen at AAV is built around.
The team that handles government flight catering at Surallah is the same named crew on every rotation, not a rota drawn from a general pool. Each member carries security clearance on file, sits on the access list for the ramp, and is trained to the household standards a royal or state movement expects. That continuity is what lets a single-runway field still be trusted with protocol work: the people, not the apron, are what scales.
Halal airline meals and special meals at Surallah, Philippines
Royal flight catering standards per cabin at Surallah airport
AERO GOURMET writes menus to the cabin and to the mission rather than to a fixed cycle, adjusting for a scheduled turnaround, a charter block or a state movement through Surallah. Produce and dairy are drawn on where the Philippines supplies them, giving inflight catering at RPMA a genuinely local base rather than a standard import list. Specifications are filed against the cabin count carried on this narrow-body reference code, so a change in aircraft type changes the tray plan, not the standard. Allergen, halal, kosher and medical sets are documented per passenger and per cabin, labelled and sealed before the cart ever reaches the ramp.
First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins at Surallah are plated to a written specification rather than to a fixed cycle, with à-la-carte and caviar service available on request against the standing order. VIP flight catering here is filed per passenger, so a household or protocol change is worked into the specification, not improvised at the galley door.
Business cabins
Business cabins at RPMA take multi-choice hot service built to oven-ready formats sized to the galley fitted on this narrow-body reference code. Crew meals, cabin crew meals and pilot meals are boxed separately to the roster, so tray sets and meal boxes board in the sequence the crew actually works.
Protocol & dietary
Household, religious and medical requirements are documented per passenger at AAV, with halal and kosher sets produced on a dedicated line and sealed before it joins the main uplift. The full range of IATA special meal codes is worked from that same line, so inflight catering here answers a dietary brief without slowing the rest of the load.
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 Surallah 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 Surallah
Surallah handles a mix of scheduled, charter and occasional government traffic across its one runway, and that narrow-body reference code means a delegation or a peak departure bank is a sequencing problem before it is anything else: one rotation is cleared off the stand before the next is staged. Ground handling on the apron and airside delivery to the stand are worked to that same single-file rhythm, with our loading crew escorted from the kitchen rather than routed through a shared curb.
Airline catering at RPMA, aviation catering at Surallah and in-flight catering in Surallah run off one ops desk regardless of segment, and airport catering at AAV is planned rotation by rotation rather than by a fixed timetable. Inflight catering in Philippines at a field of this size depends on discipline more than on scale: the same coordinator who books the slot also signs off the seal.
What we commit to here is unchanged whatever the traffic: one coordinator per rotation, carts sealed at the kitchen, and a signed handover at the aircraft.
VVIP catering alongside scheduled flights at RPMA / AAV
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Government and state flight catering at Surallah
A narrow-body reference code narrows the margin for last-minute changes, so a head of state movement through Surallah is planned against the same tight sequencing that governs every other rotation here. Government flight catering for state visits and official delegations is documented per passenger, staffed with security-cleared crew, and sealed at the kitchen before it leaves for the stand.
Government & state flights →
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at RPMA
One runway, one reference code: that single-file sequencing is what a royal household movement through Surallah is planned around, not against. VVIP and royal flight catering at AAV covers private airliners, BBJ, ACJ and wide-body VIP configurations alike, held to a written household specification kept on file between movements, with halal and other household requirements produced on request.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at AAV
We load charter, ACMI and wet-lease movements through Surallah against the same loading sheet used for scheduled traffic, so a group departure or a special mission is staged in the exact order the galleys are laid out. Charter flight catering at Surallah covers a full three-cabin uplift on a single narrow-body reference code, and charter flight catering at RPMA is counted tray by tray against that sheet before the cart leaves the kitchen.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at Surallah
At a field carrying a single 1340 m runway, every carrier working Surallah as an outstation shares the same slot pressure we plan against. Ad hoc airline catering and outstation catering at AAV cover uplifts booked outside the regular cycle, with diversion catering and technical stop catering run off the same duty roster, AOG included, across a multi-leg rotation; crew meals in Surallah are boxed to the same roster rather than treated as an afterthought, and ad hoc catering at AAV moves on the same sealed cart as the scheduled load.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at RPMA
The 1340 m runway at Surallah also carries the business aviation movements that use the GA terminal and the FBOs on the field, and it sets the same tight rotation window for them as for scheduled traffic. Private jet catering at RPMA is delivered to that terminal through our dedicated branch, with business aviation catering and business jet catering run on the same cold chain and the same paperwork as an airline uplift, FBO catering included.
Private jets →
Charter flight catering reviewed at Surallah
Flight departments on jet catering at Surallah (AAV)
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
Scheduled airline
“Our flight changed at short notice and we arranged technical stop catering at Surallah (AAV/RPMA). Confirmation was quick, the order stayed clear despite several updates, and delivery reached the aircraft on time. We would use them again for another short-notice stop. Responses were quick whenever we had a question, which helped us keep the flight on schedule.”
★★★★★Private jet operator
Leon — VIP Aviation Coordinator
“Surallah (AAV/RPMA) was an outstation for us, and we booked catering for airlines without flight kitchen for the sector. It felt like working with a regular station supplier even though this was not one of our usual airports. A solid solution for outstation operations. The final handover was simple and there was nothing for the crew to correct before departure.”
★★★★★Charter operator
Joana — Charter Operations Manager
“We requested an airline catering quote for Surallah (AAV/RPMA) and appreciated how clear the pricing was. They answered our questions without overcomplicating the process and kept the final cost aligned with the confirmation. The clear communication made the booking easy. The final handover was simple and there was nothing for the crew to correct before departure.”
★★★★☆Scheduled airline
Hana — Station Services Coordinator
Surallah (RPMA / AAV): airport catering data
| Datum | Value |
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| Longest runway | 1,340 m |
| Runways | 1 |
| Aerodrome reference code | narrow-body |
| ICAO | RPMA |
Business jet catering questions at Surallah, Philippines
Outstation catering and access questions at Surallah, Philippines
What operations gets asked every week about Surallah.
Ask operations directly →In Surallah, what does airline catering cost at this station?
The sealed cart your uplift travels in carries no fixed price tag; airline catering cost here depends on cabin count, specification and the loading window booked for the rotation, and our desk returns a quotation once those are set.
Do you deliver private jet catering to the FBOs and the GA terminal at Surallah Airport?
Yes, through a dedicated private jet catering branch that reaches every FBO on the field and the GA terminal directly, with FBO catering run on the same cold chain and paperwork as an airline uplift.
Can halal, kosher and the IATA special meal codes be produced for a flight through AAV?
The full set of SPML codes, including halal and kosher, is produced on a dedicated line and documented per passenger before it joins the main uplift.
How far in advance does RPMA need an order, and how late can the specification change?
RPMA works to a lead time set by the loading window rather than a fixed calendar date, so how far in advance you book depends on the rotation; last minute airline catering changes are still taken up to the seal at the kitchen door where the schedule allows it.
Given the single-runway sequencing at Surallah, are VIP, VVIP and government flights catered here, and under what protocol?
There is a standing protocol for VIP flight catering, government flight catering and VVIP movements through Surallah, with security-cleared staff, documented household requirements and a sealed uplift signed off at the aircraft.
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