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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — Bâle / Mulhouse, France
Bâle / Mulhouse (LFSB / BSL): airline catering, VIP flight catering and private jet catering
BSL (IATA) · LFSB (ICAO)
With a 3900 m longest runway, Bâle / Mulhouse takes wide-body movements that need a matched uplift, and our wing plans inflight catering here around that scale rather than around a single stand. From a sealed cart to the galley door, hi-loader boarding lifts every tray set to aircraft height, and in-flight catering moves airside without a foot-of-aircraft handover, on a kitchen run measured for uplift at LFSB and inflight catering in France alike.
3,900 m
Longest runway
Wide-body
Largest aircraft handled
2
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 — Bâle / Mulhouse
Commercial aviation catering at wide-body scale, Bâle / Mulhouse
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Aviation catering timeline, order to boarding, at BSL
Flight catering sealed and logged to the stand at LFSB / BSL
The loading window at Bâle / Mulhouse runs from the sealed cart at our kitchen to the signature at the galley door, and every stage of it is timed rather than guessed. Ramp access is held on our own clearance rather than at a handover point, so the convoy moves under one badge from kitchen exit to aircraft side. Catering at LFSB is scheduled against that sequence, not against an estimate.
Between our kitchen and the stand at Bâle / Mulhouse sit screening, an escort through the apron and the ordinary traffic of a working ramp, and we plan every catering uplift against the worst of those three rather than the average of them. The chain of custody stays with one team from the moment the cart is sealed to the moment it reaches the galley, so a delay on the ramp never becomes a gap in the record. Temperatures are logged at sealing and logged again at handover, and the galley catering that reaches the aircraft carries a signature that closes the load against both readings.
One coordinator carries the load from the kitchen seal to the signature at the galley door.
Airline food supplier kitchen serving LFSB
Cleared crews behind government flight catering at Bâle / Mulhouse
The kitchen behind airport catering at Bâle / Mulhouse runs hot production, pastry, a cold larder and a protocol cell under one roof, built to HACCP standard across every line. That layout means a wide-body rotation and a single VIP movement are worked in parallel rather than in sequence, without one delaying the other. Airport catering in France answers to the same standard, and the flight kitchen at BSL is where that standard is set for every cart that leaves it.
The team behind government flight catering at Bâle / Mulhouse is the same named crew on every rotation, not a rota filled from whoever is on shift. Each member carries security clearance on file and sits on the access list before a cart is ever loaded, trained to the household standards a protocol movement is checked against. The chain of custody they sign travels with the uplift, not with the paperwork alone.
VIP flight catering and dietary sets at Bâle / Mulhouse airport
Royal flight catering standards per cabin at BSL
Menus at Bâle / Mulhouse are written to the cabin and to the mission rather than to a single fixed list, and inflight catering here draws on the region's dairy, orchard fruit and lake fish where the season allows it. A First cabin service is plated to a written specification with à-la-carte options on request, while Business and main cabin run on a cycle built around galley-ready formats. Special meals are produced on their own line: halal, kosher, vegan, gluten-free and the full IATA SPML set, each one labelled per passenger and per cabin before it is sealed. Inflight catering at LFSB is documented the same way whichever cabin it boards.
First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins at Bâle / Mulhouse: VIP flight catering plated to a written specification, with caviar and à-la-carte service available on request. Presentation is filed against the standing order, so a repeat rotation is served the same way twice, and VIP flight catering in France follows that same file every time.
Business cabins
Business cabins at LFSB run on multi-choice hot service to cabin specification, in oven-ready formats sized to the aircraft's own galley. Crew meals at BSL and crew meals in France are boxed separately from the cabin service, with cabin crew meals and pilot meals kept to their own tray sets on the roster.
Protocol & dietary
Protocol and dietary requirements are documented per passenger at BSL, covering household, religious and medical sets on a separate production line before it is sealed. Halal and kosher meals, along with the full range of IATA special meal codes, are produced this way, and inflight catering at BSL carries that documentation with the tray, not apart from it.
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
Cold chain and HACCP for aircraft catering at Bâle / Mulhouse
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.
Catering uplift coordination at BSL
Two runways and a wide-body-capable field give Bâle / Mulhouse a traffic mix of scheduled, charter and government movements, and that mix sets three different problems for catering: a delegation is a documentation problem, a wave of departures is a capacity problem, and a repeat charter rotation is a repetition problem that has to be solved the same way every time.
The uplift reaches the aircraft here by hi-loader, lifted to galley height rather than handed over at the foot of the stand, on a route from our kitchen that is timed rather than estimated. Airside delivery stays under our own clearance for the whole route, so ramp access is not shared with a third handover point between kitchen and cabin.
On every stand at BSL we commit to one coordinator, sealed carts and a signed handover: airline catering, inflight catering, in-flight catering, aviation catering and airport catering at LFSB all run off that same commitment, whichever segment the flight belongs to.
VVIP catering alongside scheduled flights at Bâle / Mulhouse
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Government and state flight catering at BSL
A 3900 m runway, and a delegation aircraft is worked to the same loading plan as any other wide-body movement on it. Government flight catering at Bâle / Mulhouse covers state visits and head of state movements with the protocol file documented per passenger, security-cleared staff on the uplift, and the cart sealed before it leaves the kitchen.
Government & state flights →
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at Bâle / Mulhouse
Our kitchen holds every private airliner rotation at Bâle / Mulhouse to the same wide-body reference code the field is built around, whether the aircraft is a BBJ, an ACJ or a wide-body VIP configuration. Royal flight catering here runs from a written household specification kept on file between movements, with halal and other household dietary requirements produced on request, and catering at BSL logged against that same file every time.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at LFSB
A wide-body-capable field takes ACMI and wet-lease aircraft on the same stands as scheduled traffic, without a separate loading plan for either. Charter flight catering in Bâle / Mulhouse covers group movements and special missions with a full three-cabin uplift counted against the loading sheet, and charter flight catering in France is staged in the order the galleys are laid out, multi-leg rotations included.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at BSL
Two runways and a wide-body-capable field mean a diverted movement can be worked here without rerouting the loading plan built for the scheduled traffic. Carriers running Bâle / Mulhouse as an outstation draw on ad hoc airline catering, outstation catering, diversion catering and technical stop catering off one duty roster, with crew meals in Bâle / Mulhouse and crew meals at LFSB boxed to the same roster, and outstation catering in France staged the same way whichever carrier calls it in.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at Bâle / Mulhouse
Business jets working a wide-body-capable field sit alongside the same ramp infrastructure built for larger aircraft, and our dedicated branch delivers private jet catering to the FBOs on the field and the GA terminal from that same kitchen. FBO catering, business aviation catering and business jet catering run on the same cold chain and the same paperwork as an airline uplift, and private jet catering in France follows that one standard.
Private jets →
FBOs at Bâle / Mulhouse
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Charter flight catering reviewed at Bâle / Mulhouse (BSL)
Flight departments on jet catering at LFSB
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
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Scheduled airline
“We needed an airline catering partner at Bâle / Mulhouse (BSL/LFSB) and the support was excellent. They understood airline operations and kept communication short, clear, and useful. We would use the service again without hesitation. The order was complete on arrival and easy for us to check before closing the doors.”
★★★★☆Charter operator
Nora — Cargo Network Controller
“We booked VIP flight catering in Bâle / Mulhouse for a flight operating through BSL/LFSB. Communication was responsive and the team handled a late timing change without any issue. A very easy service to use at this station. The order was complete on arrival and easy for us to check before closing the doors.”
★★★★★Scheduled airline
Maria — Aviation Services Coordinator
“We had several SPML on our order at Bâle / Mulhouse (BSL/LFSB) and everything was handled correctly. The team confirmed the dietary details carefully and there was no confusion when the order arrived. That attention to detail makes a big difference onboard. The order was complete on arrival and easy for us to check before closing the doors.”
★★★★☆Scheduled airline
Alex — Operations Control Officer
Flight catering station reference for Bâle / Mulhouse (LFSB / BSL)
| Datum | Value |
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| Longest runway | 3,900 m |
| Runways | 2 |
| Aerodrome reference code | wide-body |
| ICAO | LFSB |
Aircraft catering questions at LFSB / BSL
Diversion catering and ramp questions at Bâle / Mulhouse airport
What operations gets asked every week about Bâle / Mulhouse.
Ask operations directly →Can an order still change close to departure at LFSB?
Lead time depends on the cabin count and the specification, but how far in advance an order is placed decides how much can still move; last minute airline catering is worked case by case against the loading window still open.
At what point does airline catering reach the aircraft at Bâle / Mulhouse?
The first step is the seal at our kitchen, and from there airline catering travels under airside delivery straight to the stand, where a hi-loader lifts the cart to galley height rather than handing it over at the foot of the aircraft.
Given the FBOs and the GA terminal on the field, do you serve Bâle / Mulhouse airport?
There are FBOs on the field and a GA terminal that our dedicated branch supplies directly, so private jet catering and FBO catering here run on the same cold chain and paperwork as a scheduled uplift.
Do you produce halal, kosher and the IATA special meal codes at BSL?
Yes, on a separate production line: halal, kosher and the full set of special meal codes under SPML are documented per passenger before the tray is sealed.
Airport catering near Bâle / Mulhouse
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Airline & VIP flight catering →
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