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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — Copenhagen, Denmark
VIP & private jet catering with airline catering at Copenhagen (EKCH / CPH)
CPH (IATA) · EKCH (ICAO)
Across three runways, the longest running to 3600 metres, Copenhagen clears the wide-body movements a multi-class rotation needs, from scheduled service to a government or royal departure boarded on the same stand. AERO GOURMET runs inflight catering and in-flight catering here by hi-loader to galley height, with aviation catering staged from a kitchen close enough to hold the loading window on a wide-body uplift.
3,600 m
Longest runway
Wide-body
Largest aircraft handled
3
Runways
2
FBOs on station
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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 — Copenhagen
Hi-loader boarding for inflight catering at Copenhagen airport
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Aviation catering timeline, order to boarding, at Copenhagen
Flight catering sealed and logged to the stand at Copenhagen, Denmark
The loading window at Copenhagen tracks a catering uplift from the sealed cart at our kitchen to the moment it clears the galley door, with ramp access held on our own badges rather than a delivery to the foot of the aircraft. Each stage carries a timestamp, so a multi-leg rotation or a late change to the specification is traceable against the same clock. What the timeline shows is the sequence itself, not an estimate of it.
Between our kitchen and the stand at EKCH sit screening, escort clearance and apron traffic, and the galley catering plan is built against the worst case each of them can produce on a given day rather than the average one. A convoy delayed at a checkpoint is a bigger risk to a rotation than anything produced in the kitchen, which is why the route and the escort are fixed before the catering uplift ever leaves the seal station. Temperature is logged when the cart is sealed and logged again at handover, and the load only changes hands against a signature that closes the record at both ends.
One coordinator carries the seal from our kitchen to the signature at the aircraft.
Crew meals and pilot meals for CPH departures
Airline food supplier crews cleared for EKCH / CPH
Airport catering at Copenhagen runs from a facility built around hot production, pastry, a cold larder and a protocol cell under one roof, so a wide-body rotation and a royal movement are provisioned from the same site rather than passed between subcontractors. The kitchen holds its production to a documented HACCP standard, with the cold chain tracked from the larder to the sealed cart. Airport catering at CPH is therefore a single flight kitchen behind every stand, not a network of drop points assembled for the occasion.
The team assigned to government flight catering at Copenhagen is the same named crew on every rotation, carrying security clearance on file and a place on the access list rather than a rota drawn fresh each time. They work to a written household service standard and to the paperwork that has to travel with a sealed uplift, from the manifest to the handover signature. That continuity is what a protocol office is actually checking when it asks who is on the crew.
Halal airline meals and special meals at EKCH
VVIP catering to a written specification at Copenhagen
Menus at Copenhagen are written to the cabin, the mission and the season rather than to a fixed catalogue, drawing on Danish dairy, North Sea fish and orchard fruit where the sourcing supports a wide-body rotation out of Denmark. A First-cabin service and a main-cabin tray set are built from the same production line but plated to different specifications, and inflight catering here moves between the two without a second kitchen involved. Crew rotations and charter groups are worked from the same cycle, adjusted for headcount rather than rewritten from scratch. Every dietary and religious set is documented per passenger and per cabin before it is loaded, not assembled against a verbal request at the stand.
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First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins at Copenhagen are plated to a written specification rather than a standard tray, with caviar and à-la-carte service available on request for a royal or government movement. VIP flight catering here is filed against the standing order, so a repeat rotation returns to the same presentation each time.
Business cabins
Business cabins at CPH take multi-choice hot service built to the aircraft's own galley fitting, boxed in oven-ready formats sized to the tray set rather than adapted at the stand. Cabin crew meals and pilot meals travel separately, and crew meals at Copenhagen are boarded to the same roster as the passenger cabin, with crew meals at EKCH logged against the same manifest.
Protocol & dietary
Protocol and dietary requirements at Copenhagen are documented per passenger, covering halal and kosher sets and the full range of IATA special meal codes, each one matched to a coded request rather than a general label. These are produced on a separate line in the kitchen and sealed before departure, so a medical or religious set never shares a tray with the standard cabin run. Inflight catering at CPH is built to hold that separation from production through to boarding.
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 Copenhagen
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 Copenhagen (CPH)
Copenhagen carries scheduled, charter and government traffic across three runways, and that mix turns catering into three different problems on the same day: a delegation is a documentation exercise, a bank of departures is a capacity exercise, and a repeat charter rotation is a matter of holding the same specification twice a week without drift. Airline catering here is planned stand by stand rather than assumed from a generic rotation, because a wide-body movement and a business charter draw on the same kitchen but not the same loading sequence.
The uplift moves from our kitchen to the stand by hi-loader, boarded directly at galley height rather than handed off at the foot of the aircraft, with our own escorted crew holding the ramp access badge for the crossing. Inflight catering, in-flight catering and aviation catering at Copenhagen run off the same production line and the same coordinator, so a diversion or a late change to a stand does not mean a second kitchen or a second handling agent gets involved. Airport catering in Denmark is coordinated centrally, but the loading plan itself is written for this stand, not for the network.
What we commit to at CPH is one named coordinator per rotation, sealed carts from production to the aircraft, and a signed handover that closes the record.
Commercial aviation catering and VVIP missions at Copenhagen airport
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Government and state flight catering at CPH
The longest runway at Copenhagen runs to 3600 metres, which sets the wide-body movements a government flight catering rotation is built around at this field. Delegations and state visits are worked to a protocol file documented per passenger, security-cleared staff on the access list, and a head of state aircraft loaded from a sealed uplift closed before it ever leaves the kitchen.
Government & state flights →
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at Copenhagen
Our crews load the wide-body reference code held at Copenhagen against a single household specification kept on file between movements, so a royal or VVIP rotation returns to the same presentation each time rather than a fresh brief. Private airliners — BBJ, ACJ and wide-body VIP — take royal flight catering built around that standing file, with halal and other royal household dietary requirements produced on request.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at EKCH
The wide-body reference code at Copenhagen carries a full three-cabin uplift onto a single stand without splitting the load across two positions. Charter flight catering at Copenhagen serves ACMI and wet-lease operators, group movements and multi-leg special missions, and charter flight catering at EKCH is counted against the loading sheet and staged in the order the galleys are fitted, tour operator and repatriation movements included.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at CPH
Three runways at Copenhagen, the longest running to 3600 metres, keep the wide-body and narrow-body mix moving through the same ramp, which is what an ops desk has to schedule around before an outstation order is even placed. Ad hoc airline catering at EKCH covers carriers running Copenhagen as an outstation, with outstation catering, diversion catering and technical stop catering worked off one duty roster, AOG included, across a multi-leg rotation, while crew meals in Denmark travel on the same manifest as the passenger cabin.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at Copenhagen
A business airliner or a wide-body VIP movement boards at Copenhagen on the same reference code that clears a scheduled wide-body, which is what lets a private jet catering order run off the identical loading standard. FBO catering reaches the FBOs on the field and the GA terminal through our dedicated branch, on the same cold chain and paperwork as business aviation catering and business jet catering for an airline uplift, private jet catering in Denmark included.
Private jets →
FBOs at Copenhagen
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Airline catering services trusted at Copenhagen
Operators on commercial aviation catering at CPH
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
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Scheduled airline
“We used the team at Copenhagen (CPH/EKCH) for technical stop catering after an unexpected operational change. Even with the late change, the meals were packed correctly and delivered within the revised window. A dependable option for irregular operations. That made the turnaround easier for both the flight crew and the team on the ground.”
★★★★☆Private jet operator
Patrick — Client Services Manager
“We needed outstation catering for a flight through Copenhagen (CPH/EKCH) and the process was much easier than expected. Updates were concise and the delivery timing matched our handling plan. We would be comfortable using the service there again. The final handover was simple and there was nothing for the crew to correct before departure.”
★★★★☆Charter operator
Sarah — Duty Operations Manager
“For our flight at Copenhagen (CPH/EKCH), we needed a quick airline catering cost per meal before confirming the order. They answered our questions without overcomplicating the process and kept the final cost aligned with the confirmation. Good option when you need a fast and transparent answer. That made the turnaround easier for both the flight crew and the team on the ground.”
★★★★☆Scheduled airline
Ethan — Duty Station Manager
Airport catering data for Copenhagen (EKCH / CPH)
| Datum | Value |
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| Longest runway | 3,600 m |
| Runways | 3 |
| Aerodrome reference code | wide-body |
| ICAO | EKCH |
Business jet catering questions at EKCH
Diversion catering and ramp questions at EKCH
What operations gets asked every week about Copenhagen.
Ask operations directly →At which point are halal, kosher and SPML meals documented for EKCH departures?
Special meals are logged at order entry against the passenger's coded request, then produced on a separate line at the kitchen so halal, kosher and other special meal codes stay traceable through to the sealed tray.
How far in advance does Copenhagen need a catering order confirmed?
The standard lead time holds a specification open until shortly before the loading window closes, and how far in advance a change can be made depends on whether it affects cabin count or only the special meal set, with last minute airline catering handled against the same clearance as a standing order.
Does Copenhagen Airport handle VIP, VVIP and government flight catering under protocol?
Every head of state or royal movement is worked to a documented protocol file, with VIP flight catering and government flight catering handled by the same security-cleared crew and closed with a signed handover.
Where does airline catering reach the aircraft at CPH?
The handover record shows airside delivery direct to the stand, with the uplift boarded by hi-loader to galley height rather than left at the foot of the aircraft.
Inflight catering at other airports near Copenhagen
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MMX / ESMS
Malmö
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Airline & VIP flight catering →
AGH / ESTA
Ängelholm
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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
Who we come back to
Uplift at Copenhagen (CPH)