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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — Karpathos Island, Greece
Airline catering, VIP & private jet catering at Karpathos Island (LGKP / AOK)
AOK (IATA) · LGKP (ICAO)
The narrow-body reference code held at Karpathos Island sets a single wide-body-style discipline across every rotation this station handles, from scheduled sectors to ad hoc uplift. AERO GOURMET runs inflight catering, in-flight catering and hi-loader boarding to galley height here, keeping First, Business and main cabin loaded from one kitchen with no delivery left waiting at the foot of the aircraft.
2,399 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 — Karpathos Island
Hi-loader boarding for inflight catering at LGKP / AOK
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Aviation catering timeline, order to boarding, at Karpathos Island (AOK)
Inflight catering tracked kitchen to aircraft at LGKP
Karpathos Island runs a single narrow-body stand, and every catering uplift into it follows one measured route from our sealed cart to the aircraft door. Ramp access is held on our own badges rather than arranged flight by flight, which keeps the apron crossing the same length every time. That repetition is what lets a tight turnaround at AOK stay predictable instead of improvised.
Between our kitchen and the single stand at Karpathos Island sit screening, an escort across the apron and whatever traffic is working the ramp that hour, and none of it is left to chance on a catering uplift here. We plan the convoy against the busiest version of that crossing, not the easiest one, because the risk on this route has always been the ramp rather than the galley catering itself. Temperatures are logged when the load is sealed at the kitchen and logged again at handover, with a signature closing the chain of custody at the aircraft.
The convoy is the risk here, not the food, and we plan for the convoy.
Crew meals and pilot meals for Karpathos Island, Greece departures
Airline food supplier crews cleared for Karpathos Island airport
The flight kitchen provisioning AOK runs hot production, pastry, a cold larder and a protocol line under one roof, which keeps airport catering at Karpathos Island independent of any single supplier arrangement on the field. Everything leaving that kitchen is produced to HACCP standard and held on a continuous cold chain until it is sealed for the ramp. That combination is what makes airport catering at LGKP possible at narrow-body scale without splitting production across sites, and it is also what a flight kitchen at AOK is built to prove on inspection.
The staff who move government flight catering through Karpathos Island are a named team on every rotation, not a rotating pool: security clearance on file, kept on the access list, and trained to the household and protocol standards that travel with a sealed uplift. That consistency matters more at a single-stand station than at a large hub, because the same small crew carries the paperwork as well as the load. Catering at AOK stays inside that fixed circle from kitchen to signature, movement after movement.
Halal airline meals and special meals at LGKP / AOK
VVIP catering to a written specification at Karpathos Island (AOK)
AERO GOURMET plates for the cabin and the mission flying through Karpathos Island, from a fixed First and Business specification through to main-cabin tray sets, and inflight catering at LGKP draws on the produce of the surrounding islands and the Greek mainland where the menu calls for it: orchard fruit, dairy, olive oil and fresh fish feature in general terms across the cycle, never as a named dish. Cycles are written to run through a season rather than repeat week on week, so a charter and a scheduled sector on the same stand are not served from the same tray. Every meal produced against a household, medical or religious code is documented per passenger before it is sealed. Allergen information travels with the load in the same file, labelled by cabin and by seat, not attached afterwards.
First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins routed through Karpathos Island are plated to a written specification rather than to a fixed menu card, with à-la-carte and caviar service available on request. VIP flight catering here is filed against the standing order, so a repeat rotation is served to the same standard without needing the brief resent.
Business cabins
Business cabins at LGKP are served on multi-choice hot service, boxed to a galley-ready specification sized to the aircraft's own fit-out. Crew meals, cabin crew meals and pilot meals are boxed separately to the flight roster, tray sets and all, so the cabin load and the operating crew never share a single count.
Protocol & dietary
Household, religious and medical requirements move through Karpathos Island as a documented set rather than a request left to memory: halal and kosher meals, and the full run of IATA special meal codes, are logged per passenger before departure. Inflight catering produced against those codes is built on a separate line and sealed there, ahead of loading rather than at the door.
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 and sealed transfer for aircraft catering at LGKP / AOK
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 AOK
The single narrow-body reference code at Karpathos Island shapes the traffic it takes: scheduled and charter sectors alongside seasonal peaks and occasional government or VIP movement, each one a documentation and timing question rather than a volume one. A delegation here means protocol paperwork carried alongside the tray count; a seasonal wave means the same stand worked back to back rather than a second one opening up.
The uplift moves from our kitchen to that one stand by sealed cart, escorted across the apron and boarded by hi-loader to galley height, with our own crew handling the ramp leg rather than passing it to a third party partway. Airport catering at Karpathos Island is planned stand by stand for that reason: there is no second gate to divert to if timing slips.
What we commit to at AOK does not change with the traffic mix: one coordinator named to the rotation, carts sealed at the kitchen, and a signed handover at the aircraft door, in-flight catering and aviation catering alike moving to that same standard whatever the airline catering brief calls for that day.
Royal flight catering and scheduled uplifts at Karpathos Island airport
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Government and state flight catering at Karpathos Island
At a station holding one narrow-body reference code, a head of state movement or an official delegation is worked as a protocol file first and a loading job second: government flight catering here means the specification is documented per passenger, staff on the load are security-cleared, and the uplift is sealed before it leaves our kitchen. No dedicated government terminal changes that discipline; the same sealed process runs whichever stand the movement is assigned.
Government & state flights →
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at LGKP
A single wide-body-style stand discipline, even on a narrow-body reference code, is what lets a repeat household rotation through Karpathos Island be worked from the same written specification every time rather than rebriefed on arrival. Royal flight catering here covers private airliners including BBJ and ACJ types, with halal and other household dietary requirements produced on request and kept on file between movements for the royal household's own staff to check against.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at AOK
At 2,399 metres, the runway at Karpathos Island takes the charter and ACMI aircraft this segment actually flies, which keeps a wet-lease or group movement on the same loading sheet as a scheduled sector rather than on a separate plan. Charter flight catering here covers special missions and repatriation work as well as tour and group traffic, with a full three-cabin uplift staged in the order the galleys are laid out.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at Karpathos Island
A narrow-body operator flying scheduled or seasonal sectors into Karpathos Island can be boarded from ad hoc airline catering through to a standing rotation, because the reference code held here already sets the loading method our crews work to. Outstation catering, diversion catering and technical stop catering all run off the same duty roster, AOG included, across a multi-leg pattern without a separate briefing for each leg.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at LGKP
Our crews work the same 2,399 metre runway and single stand at Karpathos Island for business aviation as for scheduled traffic, so private jet catering at Karpathos Island reaches the FBOs on the field and the GA terminal on the identical cold chain and paperwork as an airline uplift, business aviation catering and business jet catering included.
Private jets →
Charter flight catering reviewed at Karpathos Island (AOK)
Operators on commercial aviation catering at Karpathos Island, Greece
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
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Scheduled airline
“For a team flight from Karpathos Island (AOK/LGKP), we booked sports team charter catering with several dietary requests. The order included different meal types and snacks, but the cabin crew could identify everything immediately. Very practical for team and group charter work. That made the turnaround easier for both the flight crew and the team on the ground.”
★★★★★Government flight department
Ian — Protocol Aviation Manager
“We needed humanitarian flight catering at Karpathos Island (AOK/LGKP) for a time-sensitive operation. The meals were practical, clearly packed, and easy for the crew to distribute during the flight. Strong support for a demanding operation. Updates were timely and the final delivery matched the confirmation we had from operations.”
★★★★★Charter operator
Yann — Flight Operations Coordinator
“Our freighter crew needed cargo airline crew catering at Karpathos Island (AOK/LGKP) during a short turnaround. The crew received the correct quantities and the handover was quick, which is exactly what we needed. Good service for freighter crews and odd-hour schedules. From an operational point of view, the service was easy to manage and required very little follow-up.”
★★★★★Charter operator
Tiago — Cargo Flight Dispatcher
Station data for airport catering at Karpathos Island (LGKP / AOK)
| Datum | Value |
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| Longest runway | 2,399 m |
| Runways | 1 |
| Aerodrome reference code | narrow-body |
| ICAO | LGKP |
Business jet catering questions at LGKP / AOK
Technical stop catering questions at LGKP / AOK
What operations gets asked every week about Karpathos Island.
Ask operations directly →Do you cater VIP, VVIP and government flights at AOK?
Yes, under a documented protocol: VIP flight catering and government flight catering both run through security-cleared staff and a specification sealed before it leaves our kitchen.
Can you deliver private jet catering airside at LGKP?
The single narrow-body stand at LGKP is also the route our crews use for business aviation, so private jet catering and FBO catering reach the GA terminal on the same cold chain as an airline uplift.
With only one stand working the ramp, how much does airline catering cost in Karpathos Island?
There are several variables behind any quote — cabin count, specification and the loading window worked that day — so airline catering cost is confirmed once those are known rather than published as a fixed rate.
How are halal, kosher and special meal codes produced at Karpathos Island Airport?
Karpathos Island Airport receives halal and kosher meals produced on a separate line, with the full set of IATA SPML codes documented per passenger before sealing.
What lead time do you need for an order at AOK?
We ask for as much notice as the mission allows, and we still take last minute airline catering changes to the specification close to departure when the loading window permits.
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Uplift at Karpathos Island (AOK)