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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — Castres, France
VIP & private jet catering with airline catering at Castres (LFCK / DCM)
DCM (IATA) · LFCK (ICAO)
At Castres (LFCK / DCM), a 1825 m runway sets a narrow-body reference code, and within that envelope we run inflight catering across scheduled, charter, VIP and government movements. In-flight catering here is boarded by hi-loader to galley height, wide-body-style handling scaled to the field, with every uplift dispatched airside from kitchen to stand.
1,825 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 — Castres
Hi-loader boarding for inflight catering at Castres airport
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Aircraft catering lead times at LFCK / DCM
Flight catering sealed and logged to the stand at Castres (DCM)
Ramp access at Castres governs the loading window: our kitchen seals the cart before it ever reaches the apron, and the hi-loader carries it to the galley door at sill height. Nothing sits waiting at the foot of the aircraft, and nothing crosses the ramp without an escort logged against the stand. The catering uplift is fixed to that sequence, not to a clock read off a brochure.
Between our kitchen and the stand at Castres sit screening, escort and apron traffic, and the plan is built against the worst of those, not the average. A single chain of custody runs from the seal at the flight kitchen to the signature at the galley, with nothing handed off along the way that is not logged. Temperatures are read at sealing and again at handover, and the galley catering that boards has already passed both checks before the hi-loader ever reaches the aircraft; the catering uplift itself carries one name against it from start to finish.
One sealed cart, one escort, one signature — that is the whole chain of custody.
Cargo crew meals and passenger uplifts for Castres
Pilot meals and cleared production crews for Castres, France
Across hot production, pastry, a cold larder and a protocol cell sit under one roof, feeding the narrow-body reference code held at Castres. HACCP governs every stage of that production, and airport catering here is built the same way whether the rotation is a single aircraft or a peak-day wave. Airport catering at LFCK draws on that one flight kitchen at DCM, so a scheduled tray set and a sealed VVIP load leave the same cold chain by the same door.
Government flight catering at Castres is handled by the same named team on every rotation: security clearance held on file, names carried on the access list, and training run to royal household standards where a mission calls for it. That team works the paperwork that travels with a sealed uplift as closely as the tray sets themselves, so a protocol officer inherits a chain of custody rather than a promise. Catering at LFCK stays with that team from seal to signature, whoever the passenger.
VIP flight catering and dietary sets at DCM
VVIP catering written per mission at LFCK / DCM
Menus at Castres are written to the cabin and to the mission, not printed off a single national card, and a narrow-body reference code sets the tray formats a chef designs against. Local sourcing draws on regional dairy, orchard fruit and fish where the season allows, worked into the specification rather than named as a dish. Inflight catering here runs from a single passenger meal box to a full VVIP tray set on the same production line, adjusted for cabin and occasion rather than rebuilt from scratch. Every allergen, halal, kosher and medical set is documented per passenger and per cabin, filed against the loading sheet before it ever reaches the aircraft.
First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins at Castres are plated to a written specification, with à-la-carte and caviar service available on request rather than fixed to a single card. VIP flight catering here is filed against the standing order, so a repeat rotation gets the same presentation each time.
Business cabins
Business cabins at DCM run on multi-choice hot service, boxed to galley-ready formats sized to the aircraft fitted that day. Crew meals, cabin crew meals and pilot meals travel as separate tray sets, boarded and counted against the roster rather than bundled with the passenger load.
Protocol & dietary
Household, religious and medical requirements are documented per passenger at Castres, with halal and kosher sets produced on a line kept apart from the main run. The full range of IATA special meal codes is worked from that same sealed line, so inflight catering here answers a dietary brief without slowing the rest of the uplift.
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 standards for aviation catering at Castres
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 Castres airport
Castres handles scheduled, charter and government movements against a single narrow-body reference code, and that mix sets the working pattern: a delegation is a documentation problem before it is a loading one, while a repeat charter rotation is a matter of holding the same tray set week after week. Airline catering in Castres is planned to that pattern rather than to a generic schedule.
The uplift leaves our kitchen sealed, crosses the apron under escort, and is boarded by hi-loader to the galley door at the stand, with ground handling covering the aircraft itself. Airport catering at Castres is worked stand by stand rather than gate by gate, and aviation catering at LFCK stays on that same route whatever the aircraft type booked for the day.
One coordinator carries the rotation from seal to signature, with in-flight catering and inflight catering at Castres run off sealed carts and a single handover record rather than a loose chain of subcontractors.
Royal flight catering and scheduled uplifts at Castres, France
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Government and state flight catering at Castres
A 1825 metre runway sets a narrow-body reference code, and that code still carries a full protocol file when the movement is a delegation rather than a scheduled service. Government flight catering at Castres covers state visits and official delegations, with the protocol documented per passenger, security-cleared staff assigned to the rotation, and the uplift sealed before it leaves the kitchen for any head of state movement on the schedule.
Government & state flights →
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at LFCK
Our kitchen holds a narrow-body reference code specification on file between movements, so a royal household repeat rotation is worked to the same written brief each time rather than rebuilt from scratch. Royal flight catering at Castres extends to private airliners — BBJ, ACJ and wide-body VIP configurations — with halal and other household dietary requirements produced on request and VVIP service held to that same standard throughout.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at DCM
A narrow-body reference code governs every stand assignment at Castres, and it sets the loading sheet a charter operator is staged against. Charter flight catering at Castres serves ACMI and wet-lease operators, group movements and special missions, with a full three-cabin uplift counted against that sheet and staged in the order the galleys are laid out, and charter flight catering at DCM held to the same sequence on every rotation.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at Castres
A 1825 metre runway holds the operation to a narrow-body reference code, which means a loading plan built around one stand rather than a bank of gates. Ad hoc airline catering at DCM covers carriers running this station as an outstation, with outstation catering, diversion catering and technical stop catering worked off the same duty roster, crew meals boxed alongside the passenger load across a multi-leg rotation, and ad hoc catering at DCM held ready between scheduled slots.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at LFCK
A narrow-body reference code at Castres already covers the business jets that share this field with scheduled and charter traffic, so the same stand discipline applies to a single aircraft as to a larger rotation. Private jet catering at Castres is delivered to the FBOs on the field and the GA terminal through our dedicated branch, on the same cold chain and paperwork as an airline uplift, with business aviation catering and business jet catering following that route and FBO catering closing the loop at the aircraft door.
Private jets →
Charter flight catering trusted by operators at Castres (DCM)
Operators on commercial aviation catering at Castres
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
Scheduled airline
“We had a last-minute schedule change into Castres (DCM/LFCK) and needed technical stop catering. 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. That made the turnaround easier for both the flight crew and the team on the ground.”
★★★★★Charter operator
Viktor — Network Operations Coordinator
“For an operation away from our normal base, we arranged outstation catering at Castres (DCM/LFCK). It felt like working with a regular station supplier even though this was not one of our usual airports. Very useful coverage for smaller or less familiar stations. Updates were timely and the final delivery matched the confirmation we had from operations.”
★★★★★Scheduled airline
Karim — Ground Services Manager
“We compared options for Castres (DCM/LFCK) and asked for an airline catering cost. 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.”
★★★★★Private jet operator
Yulia — VIP Operations Controller
Airport catering profile for Castres (LFCK / DCM)
| Datum | Value |
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| Longest runway | 1,825 m |
| Runways | 1 |
| Aerodrome reference code | narrow-body |
| ICAO | LFCK |
Business jet catering questions at DCM
Crew meals, lead times and access at DCM
What operations gets asked every week about Castres.
Ask operations directly →Working within the ramp constraints at Castres, do you deliver private jet catering to the FBOs and the GA terminal on the field?
There is a dedicated branch that reaches every FBO on the field and the GA terminal directly, running private jet catering and FBO catering on the same cold chain as an airline uplift.
How much does airline catering cost at Castres Airport?
The clearance and specification behind every uplift are fixed, but the airline catering cost itself depends on cabin count, menu specification and loading window, so our desk returns a quotation against the rotation rather than a price list.
Can an order still change once it has been placed for DCM?
The lead time runs from first booking to the final loading sheet, and how far in advance you confirm decides how late a specification can still move; ask how far in advance your rotation needs to be flagged and we hold the window open as long as the kitchen schedule allows, avoiding last minute airline catering scrambles wherever we can.
Do you produce halal, kosher and IATA special meal codes at LFCK?
Yes, produced on a line kept apart from the main run: halal and kosher sets and the full range of SPML codes are documented per passenger and sealed before boarding.
Castres, do you cater VIP, VVIP and government flights here, and under what protocol?
The hi-loader that boards every cabin at galley height carries VIP flight catering and government flight catering under the same protocol: security clearance on file, the uplift sealed at the kitchen, and one named team handling the load from seal to signature.
Outstation catering near Castres
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Airline & VIP flight catering →
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Airline & VIP flight catering →
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Airline & VIP flight catering →
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