Aviation catering — Grâce-Hollogne, Belgium

Airside airline catering, VIP & private jet catering at Grâce-Hollogne (EBLG / LGG)

LGG (IATA) · EBLG (ICAO)

Grâce-Hollogne carries a wide-body aerodrome reference code, which puts hi-loader boarding rather than kerb-side delivery at the centre of inflight catering here. AERO GOURMET runs in-flight catering to galley height on the same stands, with inflight catering staged from a kitchen positioned for the ramp, not the terminal.

A catering hi-loader box raised level with the open galley door of a wide-body, its platform bridged to the doorway.
3,690 m
Longest runway
Wide-body
Largest aircraft handled
2
Runways
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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
02
VIP at any volume
8 First covers or 400 passengers across three cabins, same execution
03
24/7 order desk
Ad hoc, AOG and same-day uplift answered around the clock
04
Multi-leg coordination
One loading sheet, every leg of your rotation
A catering hi-loader raised to the aft galley door of a wide-body on stand, its platform level with the doorway and a second truck waiting below.

On the apron — Grâce-Hollogne

Inflight catering at wide-body scale for Grâce-Hollogne

Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.

Aviation catering timeline, order to boarding, at EBLG / LGG

Airport catering, one seal from kitchen to cabin at Grâce-Hollogne (LGG)

The catering uplift at EBLG moves on a sequence, not a guess: sealed at the kitchen, escorted across the ramp access route, handed over at the galley door. Ramp access is the variable that governs the sequence at Grâce-Hollogne, ahead of the food itself, because apron movement decides when the cart can reach the stand. Every leg of that route is logged, so the loading window is a record rather than an estimate.

Four branded catering carts latched side by side in an aircraft galley, each door closed on a coloured seal.

Between our kitchen and the stand at Grâce-Hollogne sit screening, an escorted crossing and ordinary apron traffic, and none of them are left to chance on the day of a rotation. We plan the galley catering uplift against the worst case each of them can produce, so a delay on the apron does not become a delay at the aircraft door. Chain of custody runs from the sealed cart to the signature at the galley, with nothing handed off unrecorded along the way.

Temperature is logged twice: once when the load is sealed at the kitchen, and again at handover, so the cold record covers the whole route rather than one end of it. The signature that closes the load ties a named individual to the delivery, not a vehicle or a shift. That is the record an ops desk can produce if a rotation is ever queried.

One convoy, one seal, one signature: the risk sits in the crossing, not the kitchen.

Crew meals and pilot meals for EBLG departures

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Cargo crew meals produced to the same standard at EBLG / LGG

Airport catering in Grâce-Hollogne is provisioned from a kitchen built around hot production, pastry, a cold larder and a protocol cell working side by side, rather than a single galley-ready line. That layout is what lets airport catering in Belgium at this facility hold a First-cabin plated service and a main-cabin tray run on the same schedule without either slowing the other. The flight kitchen at LGG sits close enough to the ramp that the cold chain between sealing and hi-loader boarding stays under one continuous watch.

The team assigned to government flight catering at Grâce-Hollogne is the same named crew on every rotation, not a rotating pool drawn in as volume rises. Security clearance is held on file for each of them, entry sits on the access list rather than a day pass, and training runs to royal household service standards alongside the standing HACCP procedure. That continuity is what a protocol officer checks first, ahead of anything printed on a menu.

VIP flight catering menus for LGG departures

Royal flight catering standards per cabin at EBLG / LGG

Menus for inflight catering at EBLG are written to the cabin fitted on the aircraft and to the mission it is flying, not to a fixed network standard applied everywhere the same way. Belgian produce anchors the sourcing where the season allows it, drawing on the country's dairy, orchard fruit and North Sea fish rather than a single named supplier. Specifications move with the season and the rotation length, while the tray standard behind them holds constant across a multi-leg schedule. Every dietary and religious set is documented per passenger and per cabin, so a change of aircraft never means a change of record.

A close view of sliced roast duck topped with radish on asparagus spears, glaze pooling on white china.

First & VVIP cabins

First and VVIP cabins at Grâce-Hollogne are plated to a written specification held on file between rotations, with caviar and à-la-carte service available on request rather than fixed to one set menu. VIP flight catering here is filed against the standing order, so a repeat movement is served to the same record each time it lands.

A complete tray set on a black tray: a hot egg and ham dish, cut fruit, breads, a pastry, a set yoghurt and a portion of preserve.

Business cabins

Business cabins at EBLG run on multi-choice hot service built to the cabin specification fitted to that aircraft, boarded in oven-ready formats sized to the galley rather than a generic tray. Crew meals travel in the same load: cabin crew meals and pilot meals are boxed separately and rostered against the crew list for that sector.

Diet.

Protocol & dietary

Protocol and dietary requirements at Grâce-Hollogne are documented per passenger, covering household, religious and medical requests alongside halal and kosher sets produced to the full range of IATA SPML codes. Inflight catering in Grâce-Hollogne keeps that production on a separate line, sealed before it ever reaches the main load.

The three books

A tray set on a stainless steel bench: a plated fish fillet with rice and vegetables, a bread roll with herb butter, and a berry dessert in a glass.

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Royal & Government Flights

Royal households · government · state operations

  • Plated service · First to main cabin
  • Protocol handling · security clearance
Chefs plating a long line of identical main courses under heat lamps, with loaded catering trolleys waiting at the end of the line.

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Charter & Commercial

Charter · ACMI · group · scheduled · ad hoc

  • 400 passengers · one uplift
  • HACCP cold chain, logged to the galley door
A business jet cabin credenza laid with chilled sparkling wine in a bucket, bottled drinks, a nut dish and folded napkins on a silver tray, beside a single passenger seat.

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Private Jet

Business jet · VVIP charter · flight departments

  • From 8 covers · plated forward
  • Reheat sequence specified per dish

Compliance

HACCP-compliant aircraft catering at Grâce-Hollogne (LGG)

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 Grâce-Hollogne airport

Grâce-Hollogne carries a wide-body aerodrome reference code across two runways, which sets the traffic this station is built to take: scheduled and charter movements alongside government and VIP rotations, each with its own documentation load rather than a single standard file. A delegation adds a protocol layer that a scheduled sector does not carry, and a peak wave of charter departures turns the same kitchen output into a capacity question rather than a menu question.

Inflight catering at LGG reaches the aircraft by hi-loader, straight from the sealed cart to the galley door, with airside delivery routed on our own ramp access rather than a stand-side drop. In-flight catering in Belgium at this station is worked to that same route regardless of the segment, so a charter uplift and a scheduled uplift travel the same escorted path across the apron.

One coordinator holds the rotation from seal to signature, aviation catering at EBLG runs on carts sealed before departure from the kitchen, and airline catering in Grâce-Hollogne closes on a signed handover rather than a verbal confirmation at the stand.

VVIP catering and commercial flights at Grâce-Hollogne, Belgium

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Government and state flight catering at Grâce-Hollogne
The 3690 m runway at Grâce-Hollogne clears the wide-body aircraft that state visits and head of state movements typically fly, and government flight catering here is built around that clearance rather than around volume. Protocol is documented per passenger, staff carry security clearance on file, and the uplift is sealed at the kitchen before it leaves for the stand.
Government & state flights →
Royal vvip food.
02
Royal and VVIP flight catering at EBLG
Private airliners hold on the same wide-body stands that a scheduled aircraft uses at Grâce-Hollogne, which is what lets a BBJ, an ACJ or a wide-body VIP movement board without a change of ramp routine. Royal flight catering here runs 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 LGG
Across the wide-body stands at Grâce-Hollogne, the 3690 m runway is what admits the ACMI and wet-lease aircraft that group and special-mission charter work typically flies. Charter flight catering at Grâce-Hollogne covers 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, and charter flight catering at EBLG holds that same sequence across a multi-leg tour.
Wide-body charter →
A complete tray set on a black tray: a plated fish fillet with rice and vegetables, a seeded roll with herb butter and a berry dessert in a glass.
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Airline and ad hoc catering at Grâce-Hollogne
The wide-body reference code held at Grâce-Hollogne keeps the ramp built for scheduled and ad hoc traffic alike, so a carrier running this station as an outstation gets the same hi-loader route as a resident airline. Ad hoc airline catering, outstation catering, diversion catering and technical stop catering all run off one duty roster here, AOG included, across a multi-leg rotation.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at EBLG
A wide-body reference code sets the ramp equipment at Grâce-Hollogne, which means a business aviation movement is sequenced around hi-loader traffic rather than served from a separate light-aircraft routine. Private jet catering at EBLG reaches the FBOs on the field and the GA terminal through our dedicated branch, on the same cold chain and paperwork as an airline uplift, which is what FBO catering and business aviation catering mean here in practice.
Private jets →

Charter flight catering trusted by operators at LGG

Operators on commercial aviation catering at Grâce-Hollogne

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Government flight department

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Royal household

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Charter operator

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Scheduled airline

“We arranged sports team flight meals for the group at Grâce-Hollogne (LGG/EBLG) after a late schedule update. The meals were clearly labeled, portions were suitable for the group, and the delivery stayed on time despite a moving departure. A good partner for sports charter operations. The final handover was simple and there was nothing for the crew to correct before departure.”

★★★★☆

Private jet operator

Felix — Executive Aviation Coordinator

“We needed troop flight catering at Grâce-Hollogne (LGG/EBLG) for a time-sensitive operation. They kept the menu simple, respected the special requirements, and delivered exactly when the aircraft was ready to receive it. We appreciated the flexibility. The final handover was simple and there was nothing for the crew to correct before departure.”

★★★★★

Charter operator

Antonio — Network Operations Coordinator

“For a cargo sector from Grâce-Hollogne (LGG/EBLG), we arranged cargo crew meals for the operating crew. The order was simple, filling, clearly labeled, and delivered in a format the crew could load without delay. Simple, efficient, and on time. The final handover was simple and there was nothing for the crew to correct before departure.”

★★★★☆

Scheduled airline

Rafael — Operations Control Officer

Station data for aviation catering at Grâce-Hollogne (EBLG / LGG)

DatumValue
Longest runway3,690 m
Runways2
Aerodrome reference codewide-body
ICAOEBLG

Business jet catering questions at LGG

Diversion catering and ramp questions at LGG

What operations gets asked every week about Grâce-Hollogne.

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Does LGG produce halal, kosher and the full range of SPML codes?

Every special meal request at Grâce-Hollogne is produced to the matching IATA SPML code, including halal and kosher sets, and logged per passenger and per cabin so the record travels with the tray.

Where is VIP, VVIP and government flight catering documented at EBLG?

The protocol file held on each movement is what proves it: VIP flight catering and government flight catering at EBLG both run against a written specification, sealed under the same protocol before the load leaves the kitchen.

Which method gets airline catering airside at Grâce-Hollogne?

The hi-loader is the method: airline catering at Grâce-Hollogne is boarded straight from the sealed cart to galley height, with airside delivery routed on our own ramp access rather than handed off at the stand.

When is airline catering cost confirmed at Grâce-Hollogne Airport?

Once the cabin count, the specification and the loading window are set, the desk at Grâce-Hollogne Airport returns a quotation built on those three factors, since no fixed price list is published.

Who sets the lead time for an order at LGG?

Across a standard rotation the desk asks for advance notice to plan the kitchen run, but a specification can still change close to departure, and last-minute airline catering is handled through the same ops desk rather than a separate process.

Airport catering near Grâce-Hollogne

MST / EHBK
Maastricht
Netherlands · 38 km from Grâce-Hollogne
Airline & VIP flight catering →
GKE / ETNG
Geilenkirchen
Germany · 55 km from Grâce-Hollogne
Airline & VIP flight catering →
CRL / EBCI
Charleroi
Belgium · 72 km from Grâce-Hollogne
Airline & VIP flight catering →

Aircraft catering quote for Grâce-Hollogne airport

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Grâce-Hollogne (LGG / EBLG)

Give us the aircraft and what goes on board. A coordinator comes back with a quote for Grâce-Hollogne, not a brochure.

orders@aerogourmet.com · operations desk, 24/7

Four steps

Flight

Aircraft · stand · local time

Offloading

Return leg, if any

Order

Counts · menus · files

Contact

Who we come back to

Step 1 of 4 · Flight

Flight

The airport is already filled in. Change it if the uplift boards elsewhere.

Search by city, IATA or ICAO.
Local time at the airport of delivery.
Hi-loader required
Offloading

One question. Answer no and the step closes itself.

Offloading required
Order

What goes on board, and for how many. Attach a loading sheet if you hold one.

Order from one of the three menu books

Give the detail per cabin if there is one.
Accepted formats: PDF, JPG, PNG, Word, Excel, CSV, TXT — up to 4 MB per file.
Contact

One name, one desk. We reply to it and nowhere else.

Uplift at Grâce-Hollogne (LGG)