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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — Colombier-Saugnieu, France
Wide-body airline catering, VIP & private jet catering at Colombier-Saugnieu (LFLL / LYS)
LYS (IATA) · LFLL (ICAO)
A wide-body reference code and two runways stretching to 4000 metres let Colombier-Saugnieu take a full-size widebody onto stand for boarding rather than a curbside drop, which is where inflight catering and airside work part company. AERO GOURMET runs in-flight catering here by hi-loader straight to galley height, with inflight catering staged for multi-class, VVIP and government rotations off one ops desk.
4,000 m
Longest runway
Wide-body
Largest aircraft handled
2
Runways
02
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 — Colombier-Saugnieu
Commercial aviation catering at wide-body scale, LFLL / LYS
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Aircraft catering lead times at Colombier-Saugnieu, France
Aircraft catering handover at the galley door, Colombier-Saugnieu (LYS)
The loading window at Colombier-Saugnieu is measured against ramp access, not guessed at: from the moment a sealed catering uplift leaves our kitchen to the moment it clears the galley door on a wide-body stand. Screening, escort and apron sequencing at LFLL are built into that measure rather than added afterwards, because a wide-body turn has no spare minutes to absorb them. The result is a fixed sequence an ops desk can plan a rotation against, not an estimate revised on the day.
Between our kitchen and the stand at Colombier-Saugnieu sit screening, an apron escort and the ordinary traffic of a wide-body ramp, and the loading window is built against the worst of those, not the best. That is deliberate: the convoy carrying the catering uplift is the part of the operation most exposed to delay, far more than the galley catering itself once it is sealed and on the cart. Every cart is logged at sealing and again at handover at the aircraft, with temperatures recorded at both ends and a signature closing the load, so the chain of custody at LFLL runs unbroken from kitchen door to galley door with nothing left to memory.
One coordinator, one seal, one signature, from our kitchen to the galley door.
Flight kitchen and crew meals for LFLL / LYS
Pilot meals and cleared production crews for Colombier-Saugnieu (LYS)
The flight kitchen behind Colombier-Saugnieu runs hot production, pastry, a cold larder and a protocol cell under one roof, built to feed wide-body rotations rather than single sectors. Airport catering at LYS is planned from that one facility, so a multi-leg day is staged as one continuous production run instead of separate orders stitched together. Every tray leaving the building is produced to HACCP standard and cold-chain logged before it reaches airport catering at LFLL and the stand it is due on, wherever in France that stand sits.
The named crew that handles government flight catering at Colombier-Saugnieu works every rotation of that kind, not a rotating roster pulled in as needed. Each member carries security clearance on file and a place on the access list, trained to royal household standards and to the paperwork a sealed uplift carries with it across the apron. That continuity is what a protocol officer is actually checking for when they ask who touches the cart between the kitchen and the aircraft.
VIP flight catering and dietary sets at Colombier-Saugnieu
VVIP catering to a written specification at Colombier-Saugnieu, France
AERO GOURMET writes its inflight catering in Colombier-Saugnieu to the cabin flown and the mission behind it, drawing where it can on the dairy, orchard fruit and lake and river fish of the surrounding Rhône-Alpes countryside rather than a fixed national menu. A First and Business specification differs from a charter tray set not by cost but by service format, plating and course count, and both are written before the rotation rather than adapted on the day. Special dietary sets, halal, kosher and documented allergen requirements are produced against a written brief and labelled per passenger and per cabin, so a steward can match a tray to a name without opening it. Seasonal changes move through that same written process, never through substitution at the last minute.
First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins at Colombier-Saugnieu take VIP flight catering plated to a written specification rather than a fixed set menu, with caviar service and à-la-carte options available on request. Every course is filed against the standing order held for that cabin, so the presentation a passenger sees repeats rotation after rotation at LYS.
Business cabins
Business cabins at LFLL take multi-choice hot service built to cabin specification, in oven-ready formats sized to the galley fitted to the aircraft on stand. Crew meals and pilot meals travel as separate tray sets boxed to the flight-deck roster, alongside cabin crew meals prepared to the same cold-chain standard as the passenger service at LYS.
Protocol & dietary
Protocol and dietary requirements at LFLL are documented per passenger, covering household, religious and medical needs against a written brief rather than a verbal note. Halal and kosher sets and the full range of IATA special meal codes are produced on a separate line and sealed before that inflight catering leaves the kitchen for the stand.
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
Food safety records for aviation catering at LFLL / LYS
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 LFLL
Colombier-Saugnieu takes scheduled, charter and government traffic across two runways and a wide-body reference code, and that mix sets three different problems for a kitchen to solve at once: a delegation is a documentation problem, a wave of departures is a capacity problem, and a repeat rotation is a problem of getting the same tray right every time. Airline catering at this station is planned to cover all three from one ops desk rather than treating them as separate jobs.
The uplift travels from our kitchen to the ramp under escort, loaded by hi-loader to galley height on the wide-body stand rather than handed off at the foot of the steps, with ground handling on the apron coordinating the slot the cart is due in. That route is what keeps aviation catering at LYS and airport catering at Colombier-Saugnieu on the same clock as pushback instead of running ahead of it or behind it, and it is also where in-flight catering in Colombier-Saugnieu and inflight catering in France meet the same wide-body stand under one loading sheet.
What we commit to on this station is unchanged whatever the traffic mix that day: one coordinator named to the rotation, carts sealed at the kitchen, and a signed handover at the aircraft closing the load.
Government, royal and charter flight catering at LFLL / LYS
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Government and state flight catering at Colombier-Saugnieu
A wide-body reference code at this station means a head of state aircraft is handled on the same stand class as any other wide-body movement, with nothing about the loading plan built around a smaller airframe. Government flight catering at LFLL follows from that: protocol documented per passenger, security-cleared staff on the cart, and the uplift sealed before it leaves the kitchen for the delegation's stand.
Government & state flights →
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at LFLL
Wide-body is the reference code held at Colombier-Saugnieu, which means a private airliner on a royal or VVIP movement is loaded to the same stand class as a scheduled widebody rather than diverted to a smaller apron. Royal flight catering here covers BBJ, ACJ and other wide-body VIP airframes, held to a written household specification kept on file between movements, with halal and other household dietary requirements produced on request.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at LYS
Our kitchen plans a wide-body reference code as its baseline capacity, which is what lets it take a full charter cabin set at Colombier-Saugnieu without treating it as an exception to a smaller day. Charter flight catering at Colombier-Saugnieu and charter flight catering at LYS both cover ACMI and wet-lease operators, group movements and multi-leg special missions, with a full three-cabin uplift counted against the loading sheet before the stand is called.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at Colombier-Saugnieu
Across the two runways at Colombier-Saugnieu, carriers running this station as an outstation draw on the same wide-body reference code as a home-based operator, which is what makes ad hoc airline catering here a standing capability rather than a special request. Outstation catering, diversion catering and technical stop catering move off one duty roster, AOG included, with crew meals at Colombier-Saugnieu and crew meals at LFLL boxed to whatever multi-leg rotation the day brings.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at LFLL
Two runways at Colombier-Saugnieu carry business aviation alongside the wide-body traffic the field is built for, and that shared ramp is where our dedicated private-jet branch delivers to the FBOs on the field and the GA terminal. Private jet catering at LFLL, FBO catering and business jet catering all run on the same cold chain and the same paperwork as the business aviation catering built for a scheduled cabin.
Private jets →
Charter flight catering reviewed at Colombier-Saugnieu, France
Operators on commercial aviation catering at LFLL / LYS
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
Scheduled airline
“Our flight at Colombier-Saugnieu (LYS/LFLL) required tray set catering airline with clear service-by-service organization. Presentation stayed good while the setup remained practical for a fast aircraft turnaround. Good attention to the operational side of catering. Responses were quick whenever we had a question, which helped us keep the flight on schedule.”
★★★★★Scheduled airline
John — Station Performance Manager
“For a changing schedule at Colombier-Saugnieu (LYS/LFLL), we needed flexible outstation. The team stayed in contact with operations, adjusted to the new timing, and kept the aircraft handover simple. We appreciated how easy the coordination was. Updates were timely and the final delivery matched the confirmation we had from operations.”
★★★★★Private jet operator
Rafael — VIP Trip Manager
“We used the team for private jet catering at Colombier-Saugnieu (LYS/LFLL) on a VIP trip. The food arrived fresh and well presented, with clear labels and packaging that actually worked in our galley. I would definitely order from them again. Responses were quick whenever we had a question, which helped us keep the flight on schedule.”
★★★★☆Charter operator
Niko — Duty Operations Manager
Airport catering facts for Colombier-Saugnieu (LFLL / LYS)
| Datum | Value |
|---|---|
| Longest runway | 4,000 m |
| Runways | 2 |
| Aerodrome reference code | wide-body |
| ICAO | LFLL |
Business jet catering questions at Colombier-Saugnieu
Outstation catering and access questions at Colombier-Saugnieu
What operations gets asked every week about Colombier-Saugnieu.
Ask operations directly →Where can you deliver private jet catering at LYS, on the FBOs and the GA terminal?
Our despatch record for LYS lists the FBOs on the field and the GA terminal as standing delivery points, so FBO catering reaches any of them on the same run as an airline uplift.
When do you cater VIP, VVIP and government flights at LFLL, and under what protocol?
Once a movement is flagged VIP, VVIP or government, VIP flight catering and government flight catering both move onto a protocol file documented per passenger before the cart is packed.
Does Colombier-Saugnieu need a fixed lead time before an order, and how late can it change?
Every specification is held open until close to departure, but the lead time we ask for depends on the cabin count and the loading window rather than a single fixed cut-off; last minute airline catering is handled where the specification allows it.
Which factors set airline catering cost at Colombier-Saugnieu airport?
The loader, the cart configuration and the route from our kitchen to the stand all feed the airline catering cost, alongside cabin count and specification, so the desk returns a quotation rather than a published price.
What does airside delivery look like for airline catering at LYS?
We load by hi-loader to galley height on the wide-body stand, so airline catering reaches the aircraft directly rather than being set down at the foot of the steps.
Inflight catering at other airports near Colombier-Saugnieu
LYN / LFLY
Chassieu
France · 11 km from Colombier-Saugnieu
Airline & VIP flight catering →
GNB / LFLS
Grenoble
France · 44 km from Colombier-Saugnieu
Airline & VIP flight catering →
CMF / LFLB
Chambéry
France · 62 km from Colombier-Saugnieu
Airline & VIP flight catering →
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Four steps
Flight
Aircraft · stand · local time
Offloading
Return leg, if any
Order
Counts · menus · files
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Uplift at Colombier-Saugnieu (LYS)