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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — Deauville, France
Airline catering, VIP and private jet catering at Deauville (LFRG / DOL)
DOL (IATA) · LFRG (ICAO)
A wide-body reference code at Deauville sets the loading plan before a single cart moves: three cabins, one hi-loader, one sequence to hold. In-flight catering here answers to that code first, and inflight catering follows the hi-loader path to the galley door rather than a trolley left on the apron.
2,550 m
Longest runway
Wide-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 — Deauville
Wide-body aviation catering at LFRG / DOL
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Airport catering order window at Deauville
Flight catering sealed and logged to the stand at Deauville, France
Ramp access at Deauville governs the sequence long before a cart reaches the aircraft: what happens on the apron between kitchen and stand is what the loading window actually measures. Each catering uplift is planned against that ramp movement rather than against a clock alone, so the crew loading the galley knows the sequence before the hi-loader arrives. The window covers sealing at the kitchen through to the signature at the door, and nothing in between is left to timing alone.
Between our kitchen and the wide-body stand at Deauville sit screening, escort and apron traffic, and the convoy through them is the actual risk in any catering uplift, not the food itself. We plan the galley catering run against the worst case those checkpoints can add, not the average one, so the sequence holds even when the apron is busy. Temperature is logged when the cart is sealed at the kitchen and logged again at handover, with a chain of custody that closes on a signature at the galley door.
One coordinator carries the load from the kitchen seal to the galley signature.
Pilot meals and crew meals prepared for LFRG
Cargo crew meals produced to the same standard at LFRG / DOL
Deauville's wide-body reference code means the flight kitchen behind it is built for full three-cabin runs rather than single trolleys, with hot production, pastry, a cold larder and a protocol line held under one roof. Airport catering at this station is planned from that kitchen outward, and airport catering in France more broadly follows the same HACCP standard rather than a station-specific one. A flight kitchen at DOL runs on that standard whether the rotation is a single aircraft or a full wave.
The team that handles government flight catering at Deauville is the same named crew on every rotation: security clearance on file, listed on the access list, and trained to the household standards a royal or state movement expects. That continuity matters more than headcount, because the paperwork travelling with a sealed uplift has to match the person who sealed it. Chain of custody runs from that named crew to the signature at the aircraft, with no substitution mid-rotation.
VIP flight catering and dietary sets at LFRG
Royal flight catering standards per cabin at Deauville
Menus at Deauville are written to the cabin and the mission first, then adjusted through the seasons the way any kitchen sourcing from Normandy would adjust them: dairy, orchard fruit and fish from the surrounding region feature where the season allows it, alongside the wider inflight catering menu built for scheduled, charter, VIP and government rotations. Nothing here is fixed to a single script; the cabin dictates the format and the mission dictates the protocol layer around it. Allergen, halal, kosher and medical sets are documented per passenger and per cabin, never bundled into a single generic tray. That documentation travels with the uplift, not as an afterthought attached at the door.
First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins at Deauville carry 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 at LFRG so a repeat rotation is served the same way twice.
Business cabins
Business cabins at DOL run multi-choice hot service in oven-ready formats sized to the galley fitted to the aircraft on the stand. Crew meals, cabin crew meals and pilot meals are boxed separately to the roster, alongside the passenger tray sets for the cabin.
Protocol & dietary
Protocol and dietary requirements at Deauville are documented per passenger: household and religious sets, medical diets, halal and kosher meals, and the full range of IATA special meal codes. Inflight catering for these sets is produced on a separate line and sealed before it leaves that line.
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 food safety at Deauville (DOL)
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 Deauville (DOL)
Deauville's single wide-body-rated stand carries scheduled, charter and government traffic through one apron rather than several, which means a delegation arrives as a documentation problem and a repeat charter arrives as a repetition problem rather than a capacity one. Airline catering in Deauville is planned around that single-stand reality rather than around volume, since volume is not what the ramp here is built to absorb.
The uplift reaches the aircraft by hi-loader to galley height, staged from the kitchen and escorted across the apron to the stand under ramp access held on our own badges. Aviation catering at LFRG and in-flight catering at DOL run off the same ops desk that plans that escort, so the sequence does not change between a scheduled service and an ad hoc charter.
What we commit to at Deauville is one coordinator per rotation, sealed carts from kitchen to stand, and a signed handover at the galley door — the same commitment whether airport catering at Deauville is loading one aircraft or a small wave, because inflight catering at DOL is planned against the worst case, not the average one.
VVIP catering and commercial flights at LFRG / DOL
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Government and state flight catering at DOL
Our kitchen plans against the same 2550 metre runway for a delegation aircraft as for any scheduled wide-body, which is what keeps a state visit from disrupting the rest of the rotation. Government flight catering at Deauville runs on a protocol file documented per passenger, security-cleared staff, and a head of state movement handled with the uplift sealed before it leaves the kitchen.
Government & state flights →
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at Deauville
The 2550 metre runway at Deauville takes the private airliners this segment flies, from BBJ to ACJ to wide-body VIP configurations, without a length constraint on the approach. Royal flight catering and VVIP catering here are held to a written household specification kept on file between movements, with halal and other royal household requirements produced on request rather than improvised on the day.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at LFRG
A wide-body aircraft on an ACMI or wet-lease rotation is exactly what Deauville's aerodrome reference code is built to take, stand for stand, on the same terms as any scheduled service. Charter flight catering here covers group movements and special missions with a full three-cabin uplift counted against the loading sheet, and charter flight catering in France follows that same count rather than an estimate.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at DOL
A 2550 metre runway at Deauville, and that single figure is what allows a wide-body rotation to divert or make a technical stop here rather than pass it by. Ad hoc airline catering meets that traffic on short notice, with outstation catering and diversion catering run off the same duty roster as technical stop catering and AOG, across a multi-leg rotation without a change of standard.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at Deauville
On the same wide-body-rated apron that takes scheduled and charter traffic, business aviation at Deauville is handled by our dedicated private jet catering branch and delivered to the FBOs on the field and the GA terminal. FBO catering here runs on the same cold chain and the same paperwork as an airline uplift, which is also how private jet catering in France is held to one standard rather than two.
Private jets →
Charter flight catering trusted at DOL
Protocol officers on government flight catering at DOL
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
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Scheduled airline
“Our ops team used the service at Deauville (DOL/LFRG) as an airline ops catering supplier. The response time was good and we did not have to manage several local suppliers ourselves. It made the station much easier to manage. From an operational point of view, the service was easy to manage and required very little follow-up.”
★★★★★Scheduled airline
Amelia — Flight Logistics Manager
“We booked airline catering in Deauville for a flight operating through DOL/LFRG. Communication was responsive and the team handled a late timing change without any issue. Good local support for a VIP operation. That made the turnaround easier for both the flight crew and the team on the ground.”
★★★★☆Scheduled airline
Lorenzo — Ground Operations Manager
“For our flight from Deauville (DOL/LFRG), the cabin order included multiple special meal codes. All requirements were followed and the cabin crew could see immediately which meal belonged to which passenger. We were happy with the accuracy of the order. Updates were timely and the final delivery matched the confirmation we had from operations.”
★★★★☆Private jet operator
Florian — Private Flight Coordinator
Outstation catering data for Deauville (LFRG / DOL)
| Datum | Value |
|---|---|
| Longest runway | 2,550 m |
| Runways | 1 |
| Aerodrome reference code | wide-body |
| ICAO | LFRG |
Business jet catering questions at LFRG
Diversion catering and ramp questions at LFRG
What operations gets asked every week about Deauville.
Ask operations directly →When does airline catering reach the aircraft airside at Deauville airport?
When the loading window opens, the sealed cart moves from our kitchen to the stand by hi-loader, boarding directly to galley height rather than being left at the foot of the aircraft.
Where does airline catering cost come from for a quotation at DOL?
The quotation is built from the record of cabin count, specification and loading window submitted for the rotation; we hold no published price list, and the desk returns a figure against that record.
At what point does an order need to be placed for a rotation through LFRG, and how late can the specification still change?
At the point booking opens is when the lead time starts; last minute airline catering can still be adjusted close to departure, but how far in advance the base order is placed decides how much of the specification remains flexible.
Who documents halal, kosher and the IATA special meal codes for a flight departing Deauville?
For every passenger requesting one, halal, kosher and SPML-coded special meals are produced on a separate line and logged against that passenger before the uplift is sealed.
Commercial aviation catering near Deauville
LEH / LFOH
Le Havre
France · 19 km from Deauville
Airline & VIP flight catering →
CFR / LFRK
Caen
France · 49 km from Deauville
Airline & VIP flight catering →
URO / LFOP
Boos
France · 74 km from Deauville
Airline & VIP flight catering →
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Uplift at Deauville (DOL)