Aviation catering — Lanas, France

Airline catering, VIP & private jet catering at Lanas (LFHO / OBS)

OBS (IATA) · LFHO (ICAO)

The narrow-body reference code held at Lanas sets a ramp built for single-aisle rotations, not for stacking wide-body waves, so every uplift is planned stand by stand rather than in bulk. Inflight catering here runs by hi-loader to galley height with airside delivery straight to the aircraft, and our kitchen keeps in-flight catering moving on the same ops desk around the clock.

A catering hi-loader box raised level with the open galley door of a wide-body, its platform bridged to the doorway.
Narrow-body
Largest aircraft handled
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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
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VIP at any volume
8 First covers or 400 passengers across three cabins, same execution
03
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
A catering hi-loader raised to the aft galley door of a wide-body on stand, its platform level with the doorway and a second truck waiting below.

On the apron — Lanas

Inflight catering at wide-body scale for LFHO / OBS

Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.

Airport catering order window at LFHO

Flight catering sealed and logged to the stand at Lanas

Ramp access at Lanas governs how the catering uplift moves from our kitchen to the aircraft, on a narrow-body apron where the sequence is set stand by stand. Nothing is delivered to the foot of the aircraft here: the hi-loader takes the load to galley height and the crew boards it directly. That same discipline applies whether the rotation is a single scheduled turn or a tighter charter window at LFHO.

Four branded catering carts latched side by side in an aircraft galley, each door closed on a coloured seal.

Between our kitchen and the stand at Lanas sit screening, an escorted convoy and the ordinary traffic of a narrow-body apron, and we plan the galley catering run against the busiest of them rather than the average. Each cart is sealed at the kitchen door, logged, and driven under escort to the aircraft, with the chain of custody unbroken between the two points. At the galley, the seal is checked, the temperature log is read again, and the handover is signed before the catering uplift clears our crew.

One responsibility, one seal, one signature, from our kitchen to the galley door.

Crew meals and pilot meals for Lanas airport departures

Trays of individual pastries lined up on a stainless bench beside the racks they were baked on.

Airline food supplier crews cleared for OBS

The flight kitchen behind OBS runs hot production, pastry, a cold larder and a protocol line under one roof, feeding the narrow-body stands at Lanas from a single site. Airport catering at LFHO is planned against the reference code this field holds, so tray sets and passenger meal boxes are built to fit a single-aisle galley rather than a wide-body one. Every batch leaving that kitchen carries the same HACCP discipline, whatever the airport catering run is destined for that day.

The team behind government flight catering at Lanas is the same named crew on every rotation, not a rotating pool drawn in for the day. Each member holds security clearance on file, sits on the access list for the kitchen and the ramp, and is trained to household service standards before ever touching a sealed uplift. That continuity is what keeps catering at LFHO consistent between one protocol movement and the next.

VIP flight catering and dietary sets at Lanas (OBS)

Commercial aviation catering written per cabin at LFHO

Menus at Lanas are written to the cabin and to the mission first, then adjusted for season, drawing on the produce of the surrounding French countryside where dairy, orchard fruit and regional cheese sit naturally on a plated or a tray-set menu. Inflight catering in France still answers to the same discipline this station applies: a specification fixed before the rotation, not improvised against it. Allergen, halal, kosher and medical requirements are logged per passenger and per cabin, then labelled through to the galley. Nothing leaves the kitchen without that documentation attached to the load it belongs to.

A small stack of sliced rare beef with a blistered pepper and diced tomato set off centre on a wide white plate.

First & VVIP cabins

First and VVIP cabins at OBS are plated to a written specification, with à-la-carte and tray options both built against the same standing order. Caviar service and other premium formats are available on request, filed and produced to the reference sheet kept for this station.

A complete tray set on a black tray: sliced beef fillet in gravy with piped mash and vegetables, a seeded roll with herb butter and a berry dessert in a glass.

Business cabins

Business cabins at Lanas run a multi-choice hot service in galley-ready tray sets sized to a narrow-body cabin, so oven-ready formats fit the fitted equipment rather than the other way round. Crew meals, cabin crew meals and pilot meals are boxed separately in France to the roster supplied for each rotation.

Diet.

Protocol & dietary

Protocol and dietary requirements at Lanas are documented per passenger, covering halal and kosher sets alongside the full range of IATA special meal codes. Every household, religious or medical set is produced on a separate line and sealed before it leaves the kitchen, keeping inflight catering consistent set by set.

The three books

A tray set on a stainless steel bench: a plated fish fillet with rice and vegetables, a bread roll with herb butter, and a berry dessert in a glass.

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Royal & Government Flights

Royal households · government · state operations

  • Plated service · First to main cabin
  • Protocol handling · security clearance
Chefs plating a long line of identical main courses under heat lamps, with loaded catering trolleys waiting at the end of the line.

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Charter & Commercial

Charter · ACMI · group · scheduled · ad hoc

  • 400 passengers · one uplift
  • HACCP cold chain, logged to the galley door
A business jet cabin credenza laid with chilled sparkling wine in a bucket, bottled drinks, a nut dish and folded napkins on a silver tray, beside a single passenger seat.

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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 Lanas airport

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.

Aircraft catering delivered airside at LFHO / OBS

Lanas carries scheduled, charter and government traffic across a narrow-body reference code, so each rotation is a single-stand problem rather than a wave to be stacked: one aircraft, one loading sequence, one deadline set against the turnaround. Airport catering at OBS is planned against that same rhythm, with documentation for a protocol movement treated as carefully as the tray count for a scheduled turn.

The uplift moves from our kitchen to the stand by hi-loader, boarding directly at galley height rather than being set down at the foot of the aircraft, with our own crew holding ramp access on badges issued for this field. Airline catering in Lanas, aviation catering in France, and both inflight catering and in-flight catering at LFHO all run off that single ops desk, so a diversion or a late change is worked by the same team that planned the original rotation.

One coordinator carries the load from seal to signature, with sealed carts and a signed handover closing every rotation at OBS.

Royal flight catering and scheduled uplifts at OBS

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Government and state flight catering at Lanas
Against a reference code built for narrow-body movements, a delegation aircraft into Lanas still gets the full protocol treatment: government flight catering at OBS for state visits and official delegations, documented per passenger and handled by security-cleared staff. The uplift for any head of state movement is sealed before it leaves the kitchen, with nothing set down loose on the apron at catering at OBS.
Government & state flights →
Royal vvip food.
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at Lanas
Sequencing a private airliner into a narrow-body stand at Lanas means working the loading plan around a single point of access rather than a wide-body spread of doors. Royal flight catering and VVIP catering for private airliners — BBJ, ACJ and comparable wide-body VIP types diverted onto this field — are held to a written royal household specification kept on file between movements, with halal service on request.
Royal & VVIP flights →
Menus card charter comm copie.
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at LFHO
One reference code, narrow-body, sets the loading sheet every charter movement at Lanas is checked against, allowing a full three-cabin uplift to be staged and counted before the aircraft is even on the stand. Charter flight catering at Lanas serves ACMI and wet-lease operators, group movements and special missions, with charter flight catering across multi-leg rotations in France staged to the same galley layout.
Wide-body charter →
A complete tray set on a black tray: a hot egg and ham dish, cut fruit, breads, a pastry, a set yoghurt and a portion of preserve.
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Airline and ad hoc catering at Lanas
A narrow-body aircraft diverting into Lanas still finds a stand built to take it, because the reference code held here matches exactly the traffic this outstation was set up to work. Carriers running OBS as an outstation draw on ad hoc airline catering, outstation catering, diversion catering and technical stop catering off one duty roster, with crew meals boxed alongside every AOG turnaround and multi-leg rotation in France.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at Lanas
Our kitchen supplies the same narrow-body reference code that a private airliner or a business jet uses to reach the GA terminal at Lanas, so business aviation movements are worked from the identical stand plan as an airline turnaround. Private jet catering at LFHO reaches the FBOs on the field directly, with FBO catering held to the same cold chain and the same paperwork as any airline uplift.
Private jets →

Inflight catering trusted by operators at Lanas

Protocol teams on VVIP catering at Lanas airport

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Government flight department

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Royal household

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Charter operator

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Scheduled airline

“Our sports movement through Lanas (OBS/LFHO) required sports team flight meals on a tight schedule. They handled the nutrition requests well and kept everything organized for fast distribution onboard. We would book them again for another team movement. That made the turnaround easier for both the flight crew and the team on the ground.”

★★★★★

Private jet operator

Mauro — Passenger Services Manager

“Our flight through Lanas (OBS/LFHO) required military charter catering with limited preparation time. The team understood that reliability mattered more than complexity and stayed flexible until uplift. We appreciated the flexibility. Responses were quick whenever we had a question, which helped us keep the flight on schedule. From an operational point of view, the service was easy to manage and required very little follow-up.”

★★★★☆

Government flight department

Zain — Government Aviation Coordinator

“Our freighter crew needed freighter crew meals at Lanas (OBS/LFHO) during a short turnaround. They respected the unusual timing and kept communication direct with our ops team. We would use them again for another cargo sector. Updates were timely and the final delivery matched the confirmation we had from operations.”

★★★★☆

Charter operator

Ivan — Flight Operations Specialist

Outstation catering data for Lanas (LFHO / OBS)

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Airline catering services FAQ for Lanas (OBS)

Diversion catering and ramp questions at Lanas (OBS)

What operations gets asked every week about Lanas.

Ask operations directly →
LFHO — do you cater VIP, VVIP and government flights here, and under what protocol?

We plate to a written protocol sheet at every stage, covering VIP flight catering and government flight catering alike, with the specification documented and signed off before boarding.

Can Lanas accept a change of specification close to departure, and how far in advance should an order be placed?

A working lead time of several days lets us plan the tray count and the specification properly, though how far in advance you book depends on the cabin count; last-minute airline catering changes are still worked against the same seal-and-sign process rather than turned away.

At which point does airline catering reach the aircraft at Lanas Airport?

The sealed cart clears our kitchen first, then moves under escort to the ramp, where airside delivery by hi-loader takes it straight to galley height rather than to the foot of the aircraft.

Working within a narrow-body ramp, do you deliver private jet catering to the FBOs and the GA terminal at OBS?

There is direct FBO catering coverage across every operator on the field, delivered on the same cold chain and paperwork as a scheduled airline uplift.

Jet catering at airports near Lanas

VAF / LFLU
Chabeuil
France · 63 km from Lanas
Airline & VIP flight catering →
MEN / LFNB
Mende/Brénoux
France · 67 km from Lanas
Airline & VIP flight catering →
AVN / LFMV
Avignon
France · 82 km from Lanas
Airline & VIP flight catering →

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Lanas (OBS / LFHO)

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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

Step 1 of 4 · Flight

Flight

The airport is already filled in. Change it if the uplift boards elsewhere.

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Local time at the airport of delivery.
Hi-loader required
Offloading

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Offloading required
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Uplift at Lanas (OBS)