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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — Yecheon-ri, South Korea
Airline catering, VIP & private jet catering at Yecheon-ri (RKTY / YEC)
YEC (IATA) · RKTY (ICAO)
The 2743 m runway at Yecheon-ri takes wide-body movements onto a single reference-coded stand, which is where our uplift is boarded rather than left at the aircraft door. AERO GOURMET runs inflight catering, in-flight catering and hi-loader boarding here, sealed at the flight kitchen and lifted straight to galley height for scheduled, charter, VIP and government flights.
2,743 m
Longest runway
Wide-body
Largest aircraft handled
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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 — Yecheon-ri
Inflight catering loaded to galley height at Yecheon-ri airport
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Aviation catering timeline, order to boarding, at RKTY / YEC
Inflight catering tracked kitchen to aircraft at Yecheon-ri airport
Between the sealed cart leaving our kitchen and the galley door closing at Yecheon-ri, every catering uplift runs on ramp access rather than a delivery to the foot of the aircraft. That single wide-body stand sets the sequence: one hi-loader approach, one handover, one signature. Apron movements are timed against it, not against the aircraft's own schedule, so the window holds whether the rotation is scheduled or ad hoc.
Between our kitchen and the RKTY stand sit screening, an escort onto the apron, and the general traffic the wide-body reference code brings with it. We plan the galley catering run against the worst of that sequence rather than the average of it, because a missed escort slot costs more than a slow oven. Chain of custody starts at the seal, not at the ramp: every cart is logged out of the kitchen, tracked through the checkpoint, and logged again at the galley door with a matching signature. Temperature is read at both ends of that run and recorded against the same cart number, so the catering uplift that reaches Yecheon-ri carries its own paper trail rather than a verbal assurance.
One coordinator owns the cart from the kitchen seal to the galley signature.
Pilot meals and cabin service produced for Yecheon-ri, South Korea
Crew meals and passenger sets from one kitchen at Yecheon-ri (YEC)
The flight kitchen that provisions Yecheon-ri runs hot production, pastry and a cold larder under one roof, sealed to HACCP procedure before a cart ever reaches the apron. Airport catering here is planned against the single wide-body stand rather than a spread of gate types, which keeps tray sets, passenger meal boxes and crew sets moving on one schedule instead of several. That same production line supports airport catering for scheduled, charter and government movements without splitting the kitchen into separate runs.
The team assigned to government flight catering at Yecheon-ri is the same named crew on every rotation, not a rotating pool drawn from general staff. Security clearance is held on file for each of them, checked against the access list before a cart leaves the kitchen at RKTY. They are trained to household service standards and to the paperwork a sealed uplift carries with it, so protocol movements are handled by people who have done the run before.
VIP flight catering and dietary sets at Yecheon-ri
Royal flight catering standards per cabin at Yecheon-ri, South Korea
Menus at Yecheon-ri are written to the cabin and the mission rather than to a single fixed cycle, so a scheduled service and a government rotation are not planned from the same sheet. South Korea's produce runs through the standing specification in general terms, orchard fruit, dairy and fish worked into set menus without naming a supplier or a dish. Inflight catering at YEC is planned in seasonal blocks, adjusted as the local market turns rather than fixed for the year. Every set closes on documented allergen, halal, kosher and medical requirements, labelled per passenger and per cabin before the cart is sealed.
First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins at Yecheon-ri are plated to a written specification rather than a fixed menu card, with caviar and à-la-carte service available on request. VIP flight catering here is filed against the standing order, so a repeat rotation through RKTY receives the same presentation each time.
Business cabins
Business cabins at YEC run multi-choice hot service in oven-ready formats sized to the galley fitted to the aircraft, tray sets and meal boxes staged in loading order. Crew meals, cabin crew meals and pilot meals are boxed separately to the roster, so Yecheon-ri sees no mixing of passenger and flight-deck sets on the same cart.
Protocol & dietary
Household, religious and medical requirements are documented per passenger for movements through RKTY, halal and kosher sets produced on a separate line from the main run. The full set of IATA special meal codes is worked from that documentation, and inflight catering at Yecheon-ri closes each set with a seal before it leaves the kitchen.
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 and sealed transfer for aircraft catering at Yecheon-ri
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 RKTY
Yecheon-ri's single runway and its wide-body reference code point to a station built around one stand rather than a spread of gate sizes, so a delegation movement and a scheduled rotation compete for the same slot rather than parallel ones. That single-stand profile turns catering into a scheduling problem first: the loading window has to be held exactly, because there is no adjacent stand to absorb a delay.
The uplift reaches the aircraft by hi-loader, lifted from a sealed cart straight to galley height rather than set down at the foot of the aircraft. Airline catering at YEC is coordinated with ground handling on the apron, with our own escort carrying the cart from the kitchen gate to the stand. Aviation catering and airport catering at Yecheon-ri both run off that same single ramp path, so in-flight catering in South Korea for this station is never split across two routes.
One coordinator holds the rotation from kitchen seal to stand signature, with sealed carts and a signed handover closing every load.
Airline, charter and VVIP catering at Yecheon-ri airport
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Government and state flight catering at RKTY
At Yecheon-ri, the wide-body reference code sets the terms on which a head of state aircraft is boarded: one stand, one hi-loader approach, no shared queue with scheduled traffic. Government flight catering here documents the protocol file per passenger, with security-cleared staff sealing the uplift before it leaves the kitchen.
Government & state flights →
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at YEC
A single wide-body stand at Yecheon-ri means a royal or VVIP movement is sequenced around that one slot rather than assigned a dedicated gate, so the loading plan has to be fixed well before the aircraft is on the ramp. Royal flight catering here is held to a written household specification kept on file between movements, covering private airliners such as BBJ and ACJ types, with halal and household requirements produced on request.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at Yecheon-ri
At 2743 metres, the runway at Yecheon-ri takes a fully loaded wide-body departure without a payload restriction on the catering weight carried aboard. Charter flight catering at Yecheon-ri covers ACMI and wet-lease operators, group movements and special missions, with charter flight catering in South Korea staged here as a full three-cabin uplift counted against the loading sheet.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at RKTY
A wide-body reference code at Yecheon-ri means the aircraft this station is built to board is a widebody airframe, not a narrow-body diverted onto a stand it does not fit. Carriers running RKTY as an outstation draw on ad hoc airline catering for irregular movements, outstation catering for the regular rotation, diversion catering when a flight lands unplanned, and technical stop catering across a multi-leg pattern, with AOG covered on the same duty roster and crew meals boarded alongside the passenger cart.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at YEC
We run the same 2743 m stand access for business aviation that a wide-body movement uses, so a private jet at Yecheon-ri is not routed around a separate ramp. Private jet catering at RKTY is delivered to the FBOs on the field and the GA terminal, business aviation catering and business jet catering held on the same cold chain and the same paperwork as an airline uplift.
Private jets →
Aviation catering reviews from operators at Yecheon-ri (YEC)
Operators on commercial aviation catering at RKTY / YEC
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
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Scheduled airline
“For a last-minute requirement at Yecheon-ri (YEC/RKTY), we contacted them as our airline catering partner. One contact handled the order from confirmation through delivery, which saved our dispatch team a lot of follow-up. It made the station much easier to manage. The order was complete on arrival and easy for us to check before closing the doors.”
★★★★★Private jet operator
Nina — Cabin Services Manager
“I arranged VIP flight catering in Yecheon-ri for our departure from YEC/RKTY. Communication was responsive and the team handled a late timing change without any issue. A very easy service to use at this station. Responses were quick whenever we had a question, which helped us keep the flight on schedule.”
★★★★★Charter operator
Mark — Flight Planning Manager
“I requested kosher airline meals for passengers departing Yecheon-ri (YEC/RKTY) and the labeling was excellent. All requirements were followed and the cabin crew could see immediately which meal belonged to which passenger. A good experience with complex dietary requests. The final handover was simple and there was nothing for the crew to correct before departure.”
★★★★★Scheduled airline
Oscar — Outstation Manager
Airport catering data for Yecheon-ri (RKTY / YEC)
| Datum | Value |
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| Longest runway | 2,743 m |
| Runways | 1 |
| Aerodrome reference code | wide-body |
| ICAO | RKTY |
Business jet catering questions at Yecheon-ri
Technical stop catering questions at Yecheon-ri
What operations gets asked every week about Yecheon-ri.
Ask operations directly →Which special meal codes does Yecheon-ri produce, and how are they documented?
The loader logs every tray against the passenger manifest before it leaves the kitchen, covering halal, kosher and the full set of IATA SPML codes. Special meals are produced on a separate line and sealed with their own documentation, so each set travels with a matching record rather than a verbal note.
Can you give a figure for airline catering cost at Yecheon-ri Airport?
The figure turns on cabin count, specification and the loading window requested, since we publish no fixed price list. Send the rotation details to our desk and a quotation for airline catering cost comes back against those specifics.
When does an order need to be placed for a rotation through YEC, and how late can the specification change?
Once a lead time is confirmed with our desk, changes to cabin count or dietary sets can still move close to departure without resetting the whole order. As a guide, how far in advance you book decides how much of that last-minute flexibility is available.
What do you deliver for private jet catering at RKTY?
We run FBO catering to every operator on the field, delivering to the GA terminal and the ramp handler on the same paperwork as an airline uplift. Coverage is by category rather than by name, so every FBO on the field gets the same handling.
How is VIP flight catering and government flight catering handled at Yecheon-ri, and under what protocol?
Yecheon-ri routes VIP flight catering and government flight catering through the same cleared team on every rotation, with the protocol file documented per passenger. Security clearance and household service standards apply whether the movement is a state visit or a private charter.
Do you deliver airline catering airside at Yecheon-ri Airport, and how does it reach the aircraft?
Yes, by hi-loader: the sealed cart is lifted straight to galley height rather than set down at the foot of the aircraft. Airside delivery runs on our own clearance, so the aircraft is boarded without a handover at ground level.
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Charter flight catering quote for RKTY
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Yecheon-ri (YEC / RKTY)
Give us the aircraft and what goes on board. A coordinator comes back with a quote for Yecheon-ri, not a brochure.
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Four steps
Flight
Aircraft · stand · local time
Offloading
Return leg, if any
Order
Counts · menus · files
Contact
Who we come back to
Uplift at Yecheon-ri (YEC)