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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — Thessaloniki, Greece
Airline catering, VIP and private jet catering at Thessaloniki (LGTS / SKG)
SKG (IATA) · LGTS (ICAO)
With a wide-body reference code held at this station, a loading plan has to sequence hi-loader boarding to galley height across two runways before a rotation turns. AERO GOURMET runs inflight catering, in-flight catering and aviation catering at Thessaloniki (LGTS), Thessaloniki, Greece, boarding scheduled, charter, VIP, government and private jet flights by hi-loader, wide-body uplift after wide-body uplift, from a kitchen staged against the apron.
3,440 m
Longest runway
Wide-body
Largest aircraft handled
2
Runways
1
FBO on station
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 — Thessaloniki
Aviation catering with ramp access at Thessaloniki
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
In-flight catering loading window at Thessaloniki
Inflight catering tracked kitchen to aircraft at Thessaloniki, Greece
Ramp access at SKG is what sets the loading window: our crews clear the checkpoint, cross the apron and reach the wide-body stand before the galley door opens for boarding. Nothing here is delivered at the foot of the aircraft and left for a handler to carry up; the hi-loader takes the sealed cart to galley height, and the same team that sealed it in the kitchen signs it onto the aircraft. That single chain of custody is what the timeline beside this text records.
Between our kitchen and the wide-body stand at LGTS sit a security checkpoint, an apron crossing and an escort through active traffic, and the catering uplift is planned against the slowest of the three rather than the fastest. Screening queues and stand changes move the convoy's timing more than the cooking ever does, so the schedule is built around the worst case at Thessaloniki, not the average one. Temperature is logged when the cart is sealed at the kitchen and logged again at the galley catering handover, and a named signature closes the load both times.
One coordinator carries the seal from our kitchen to the signature at the galley door.
Airline catering companies' production standard at SKG
Airline food supplier crews cleared for LGTS / SKG
The flight kitchen behind Thessaloniki holds hot production, pastry, a cold larder and a protocol cell under one roof, run to a documented HACCP standard rather than to a single chef's judgement. With two runways and wide-body stands to provision, output is planned by rotation rather than by ticket, so airport catering in Thessaloniki keeps its cold chain intact from the moment a tray is sealed to the moment it clears the checkpoint. That same structure is what airport catering in Greece depends on wherever a wide-body call sign is on the board.
With a wide-body reference code governing every stand at this station, the crew handling government flight catering here is the same named team on every rotation rather than whoever is free that shift. Each member carries a current security clearance, sits on the access list for the apron and is trained to the household standards a protocol desk expects before a delegation lands. That continuity is what keeps the chain of custody unbroken between the kitchen seal and the signature at the aircraft.
Halal airline meals and special meals at LGTS
VVIP catering written per mission at Thessaloniki
With two runways and a wide-body reference code behind it, Thessaloniki takes scheduled, charter, VIP, government and private jet menus written to the cabin ahead, not to a single fixed card. Inflight catering here draws on the produce of northern Greece in general terms — dairy, orchard fruit, fish from the gulf — worked into a specification rather than into a named dish, and adjusted by season without ever losing the standing tray format a repeat rotation expects. Menus are written for First, Business and main cabin separately, each cycle changing week to week while the plating standard behind it does not. Every dietary set close to departure is filed against the passenger list before it leaves the kitchen: allergen declarations, halal and kosher production, and any medical requirement, labelled per passenger and per cabin rather than left to be matched planeside.
First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins at LGTS take VIP flight catering plated to a written specification rather than to a fixed card, with caviar and à-la-carte service available on request across a repeat rotation. Presentation is filed against the standing order for Thessaloniki, so a returning aircraft is served to the same reference every time rather than to whichever crew is on duty.
Business cabins
Business cabins at SKG run on multi-choice hot service built to a cabin specification, boxed into oven-ready formats sized to the galley fitted to the aircraft on the stand. Crew meals, cabin crew meals and pilot meals travel in the same tray sets, boxed to the roster rather than guessed at, so the forward galley and the flight deck are provisioned to the same standard as the main cabin.
Protocol & dietary
Protocol and dietary requirements at Thessaloniki are documented per passenger before departure: household and religious requirements, medical diets, halal and kosher sets, and the full range of IATA special meal codes. Each is produced on a separate line and sealed before it leaves that line, so inflight catering in Thessaloniki carries a documented dietary set onto every cabin rather than a card printed for the majority.
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 LGTS / SKG
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 Thessaloniki (SKG)
Thessaloniki takes scheduled, charter and government traffic across two runways, and that mix turns catering into three different problems at once: a delegation is a documentation problem, a wave of charter departures is a capacity problem, and a repeat scheduled rotation is a repetition problem that has to be solved the same way every time. Airline catering in Greece has to answer all three from the same kitchen without one crowding out the other.
The uplift reaches the aircraft here by hi-loader, taken from the sealed cart straight to galley height rather than set down at the foot of the aircraft, with our own crews escorted across the apron to the wide-body stand. Airside delivery at LGTS is planned around the checkpoint and the stand assignment, so inflight catering at Thessaloniki and aviation catering in Greece both run off the same ramp routine rather than two separate ones. Airport catering at LGTS is worked stand by stand, not terminal by terminal, because that is how the traffic actually arrives.
What we commit to on this station is one coordinator, sealed carts and a signed handover at the aircraft door.
Government, royal and charter flight catering at LGTS / SKG
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Government and state flight catering at Thessaloniki
Our crews work the 3,440 metre runway at this station as the approach for delegations and official movements as readily as for a scheduled service. Government flight catering here documents the protocol file per passenger, puts only security-cleared staff on the load, and seals the uplift before it leaves the kitchen, ready for a head of state aircraft or an official delegation alike.
Government & state flights →
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at LGTS
A 3,440 metre runway carries the private airliners that royal and VVIP movements travel on, from BBJ and ACJ types through wide-body VIP configurations. Royal flight catering at this station holds a written household specification on file between movements, with halal and other household dietary requirements produced on request rather than assembled on the day.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at SKG
Wide-body aircraft under ACMI and wet-lease contracts board at this station on the same reference code that clears a scheduled service, which is what lets a group movement or a special mission load a full three-cabin uplift in one pass. Charter flight catering at Thessaloniki counts every tray against the loading sheet and stages it in galley order, and charter flight catering at LGTS runs to that sequence whether the flight is a single leg or the middle of a multi-leg tour.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at Thessaloniki
At 3,440 metres, the longest runway at this station takes the wide-body movements that turn a scheduled route into an outstation call and a diversion into a same-day uplift. Ad hoc airline catering here covers outstation catering, diversion catering and technical stop catering off one duty roster, AOG included, across a multi-leg rotation, with menu cycles that change week to week against a tray standard that does not.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at LGTS
On the same field as the wide-body stands, business aviation is worked from the GA terminal and the FBOs on the field rather than from a separate operation. Private jet catering at Thessaloniki, and the FBO catering that goes with it, runs on the same cold chain and the same paperwork as a business aviation catering uplift bound for a wide-body stand.
Private jets →
FBOs at Thessaloniki
signature aviation
Inflight catering rated by operators at SKG
Flight departments on jet catering at SKG
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
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Scheduled airline
“For a team flight from Thessaloniki (SKG/LGTS), we booked group charter catering with several dietary requests. They handled the nutrition requests well and kept everything organized for fast distribution onboard. We would book them again for another team movement. Responses were quick whenever we had a question, which helped us keep the flight on schedule.”
★★★★☆Private jet operator
Lina — Client Services Manager
“For an urgent mission at Thessaloniki (SKG/LGTS), the team supported us with military charter catering. Communication with operations was efficient and the order was adapted quickly when our timings moved. Strong support for a demanding operation. From an operational point of view, the service was easy to manage and required very little follow-up.”
★★★★★Charter operator
Jonas — Charter Operations Executive
“We ordered cargo crew meals for a cargo rotation through Thessaloniki (SKG/LGTS). They respected the unusual timing and kept communication direct with our ops team. Good service for freighter crews and odd-hour schedules. Updates were timely and the final delivery matched the confirmation we had from operations. The order was complete on arrival and easy for us to check before closing the doors.”
★★★★★Scheduled airline
Alejandro — Station Services Coordinator
Aviation catering data for Thessaloniki (LGTS / SKG)
| Datum | Value |
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| Longest runway | 3,440 m |
| Runways | 2 |
| Aerodrome reference code | wide-body |
| ICAO | LGTS |
Airline catering services FAQ for LGTS
Crew meals, lead times and access at LGTS
What operations gets asked every week about Thessaloniki.
Ask operations directly →Is airline catering delivered airside at Thessaloniki, and how does it reach the aircraft?
The escort on duty takes every uplift across the apron to the stand; airside delivery is boarded by hi-loader straight to galley height rather than set down at the foot of the aircraft.
Thessaloniki Airport — how far in advance does an order need to be placed, and how late can the specification change?
The hi-loader and the sealed cart give us flexibility on timing, but lead time still matters: standing rotations are planned well ahead, and a specification can usually still move closer to departure than an outstation order can.
How far do halal, kosher and the IATA special meal codes go at SKG, and how are they documented?
Clearance for dietary production rests on a documented standard: halal and kosher sets and the full range of SPML codes are produced on a separate line and logged per passenger before the cart is sealed.
Who is cleared to handle VIP, VVIP and government flight catering at LGTS, and under what protocol?
Across every VIP flight catering and government flight catering rotation, only security-cleared staff on the access list touch the load, and the protocol file travels with the uplift rather than staying in an office.
At which point does private jet catering reach the FBOs and the GA terminal on the field?
The load leaves our kitchen sealed first, then moves by the same escorted route as an airline uplift to whichever FBO or the GA terminal the movement is parked at, with FBO catering held to the same paperwork throughout.
Commercial aviation catering near Thessaloniki
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Kozani
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Airline & VIP flight catering →
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Airline & VIP flight catering →
KVA / LGKV
Kavala
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Airline & VIP flight catering →
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Uplift at Thessaloniki (SKG)