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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — Pico Island, Portugal
Wide-body airline catering, VIP flight catering and private jet catering at Pico Island (LPPI / PIX)
PIX (IATA) · LPPI (ICAO)
A 1745 m runway sets what boards at Pico Island, and it takes wide-body catering for airlines onto a single narrow-body-rated ramp without a foot-of-aircraft handover. In-flight catering here means one hi-loader run to galley height, on the same sealed cart, with inflight catering held to the same standard whether the rotation is scheduled or ad hoc, and inflight catering staged and boarded airside.
1,745 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 — Pico Island
Aviation catering boarded by hi-loader at Pico Island
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Inflight catering lead times at Pico Island, Portugal
Flight catering sealed and logged to the stand at Pico Island airport
Ramp access at Pico Island governs how the catering uplift moves once it leaves the sealed cart, and it is what lets the crew skip a foot-of-aircraft handover altogether. Our loader carries the tray sets straight onto the apron and up to the hi-loader platform, holding the cold chain until the galley door opens. The window is worked the same way whether the rotation is scheduled, charter or a single ad hoc call.
Between our kitchen and the stand at Pico Island sit apron traffic, escort and a security check that the convoy has to clear before the hi-loader is cleared in turn; the risk in any galley catering run sits in that convoy, not in the food it carries. Chain of custody is held by naming one escort and one loading crew for the whole movement, so nothing changes hands unrecorded between the seal and the aircraft. Temperature is logged when the cart is sealed at the kitchen and logged again at handover, and the catering uplift closes only once a signature is taken at the galley.
One coordinator, one sealed cart, one signature: that is the whole loading window.
Airline food supplier for LPPI / PIX rotations
Pilot meals and cleared production crews for Pico Island (PIX)
Airport catering at Pico Island runs from a production kitchen holding hot production, pastry, a cold larder and a protocol line under one roof, built to run to HACCP standards on every batch. That single-site model is what lets airport catering here move a full tray-set order onto the loading dock without splitting production across two locations. Passenger meal boxes, crew sets and household orders are worked off the same cold chain, whatever the mission that stands on the apron.
The team behind government flight catering at Pico Island is the same named crew on every rotation: security clearance held on file, each name on the access list, and every one trained to the household standards a protocol movement requires. Chain of custody runs with them from the seal at the kitchen to the signature at the aircraft, never handed to an untracked driver in between. Catering at LPPI for this kind of movement is planned around that team, not around the day's roster.
VIP flight catering and dietary sets at Pico Island
Royal flight catering standards per cabin at Pico Island, Portugal
Chef-designed menus at Pico Island are written to the cabin they board, not to a single house standard applied across all three, and inflight catering in Portugal draws on regional produce where the route allows it: island dairy, fresh fish and orchard fruit worked into a seasonal frame rather than named as a fixed dish. First and Business travel on different tray specifications, and the main cabin is planned to its own volume rather than a scaled-down version of either. Every dietary, allergen, halal, kosher and medical set is documented per passenger and per cabin before it leaves the kitchen, so nothing depends on a verbal note at the door. The result is a menu built around the mission, not around what a single central list happens to hold.
First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins at Pico Island are plated to a written specification held on file between rotations, with caviar and à-la-carte service available on request rather than fixed to a single set course. That specification is what VIP flight catering is checked against before the cart is sealed, so presentation matches the standing order on every movement through LPPI.
Business cabins
Business cabins at PIX run on multi-choice hot service, built to oven-ready formats sized to the galley fitted on board rather than a generic tray. Crew meals, cabin crew meals and pilot meals are boxed separately to the roster, so cabin crew meals in Portugal and cabin crew meals in Pico Island never share a cart with the passenger load.
Protocol & dietary
Protocol and dietary requirements at Pico Island are documented per passenger before the cart is sealed, covering household, religious and medical sets alongside halal and kosher production. Inflight catering at LPPI produces the full range of IATA special meal codes on a separate line, so a religious or medical order never crosses the main tray run.
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 under HACCP control at Pico Island (PIX)
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 LPPI
Pico Island's single 1745 m runway sets a narrow-body reference code across its one stand, which means every rotation through LPPI is worked on the same footprint whether it is a scheduled service, a charter or a government movement: a delegation adds a documentation load, a peak departure wave adds a capacity load, and a repeat weekly rotation adds a repetition load the coordinator plans around in advance.
Airline catering at PIX moves from our kitchen to the stand by hi-loader, boarded directly to galley height rather than left at the foot of the aircraft, with airport catering in Pico Island planned stand by stand and ramp access held on our own badges rather than borrowed for the day. Aviation catering at PIX and in-flight catering at LPPI run off the same duty roster, so a diversion or an ad hoc call is worked by the crew already cleared for the field, not a standby team. Inflight catering at PIX therefore never depends on which gate the aircraft is given.
What we commit to on this stand is one named coordinator, sealed carts from kitchen to galley, and a signed handover on every rotation.
Scheduled, charter and VVIP catering at Pico Island
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Government and state flight catering at Pico Island
At Pico Island, the narrow-body reference code that governs the single stand also governs how a delegation movement is staged, since there is no second stand to hold the convoy off to one side. Government flight catering at Pico Island for state visits and official delegations runs on a protocol file documented per passenger, security-cleared staff, and a head of state aircraft handled on the same sealed-uplift procedure as any other movement, with catering at PIX closed by signature before departure.
Government & state flights →
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at LPPI
Working a single narrow-body-rated stand means a royal household movement at Pico Island has to be sequenced around whatever else is on the apron that day, with no second stand to absorb the overlap. Royal flight catering at Pico Island for private airliners — BBJ, ACJ and wide-body VVIP configurations — is held to a written household specification kept on file between movements, with halal and other household dietary requirements produced on request rather than assumed.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at PIX
1745 metres of runway, and that length is what keeps this ramp working narrow-body charter, ACMI and wet-lease traffic rather than a wide-body group movement. Charter flight catering at Pico Island for tour operator and group charters, sports team charter and repatriation or humanitarian missions runs a full three-cabin uplift counted against the loading sheet, with charter flight catering at PIX staged in the order the galleys are laid out.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at Pico Island
A narrow-body reference code governs the single stand at Pico Island, and it is that code which lets carriers running LPPI as an outstation plan a full turnaround without a wide-body allowance to spare. Ad hoc airline catering at PIX covers outstation catering, diversion catering and technical stop catering off one duty roster, AOG included, across a multi-leg rotation, with crew meals at LPPI and crew meals at Pico Island boxed separately from the passenger load; ad hoc catering at PIX and diversion catering at PIX are worked by the same cleared crew as the scheduled service.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at LPPI
We work the same 1745 m runway for business aviation as for the airline rotations beside it, routing private jet catering in Pico Island to the FBOs on the field and to the GA terminal rather than to a single fixed dock. FBO catering, business aviation catering and business jet catering here run on the same cold chain and the same paperwork as an airline uplift, coordinated from one kitchen.
Private jets →
Charter flight catering trusted at Pico Island, Portugal
Flight departments on jet catering at LPPI / PIX
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
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Scheduled airline
“We needed delegation flight catering at Pico Island (PIX/LPPI) for a protocol-sensitive flight. Special meals and crew items were clearly separated, and the aircraft-side handover was smooth. We would trust the team again for a similar movement. Responses were quick whenever we had a question, which helped us keep the flight on schedule.”
★★★★☆Charter operator
Esther — Charter Planning Manager
“We had a larger VIP aircraft at Pico Island (PIX/LPPI) and booked private airliner catering for the sector. They followed our plating notes closely and made the final setup easy for the cabin crew. Good quality and very practical for onboard service. From an operational point of view, the service was easy to manage and required very little follow-up.”
★★★★★Charter operator
Anna — Cargo Network Controller
“For a high-volume passenger flight at Pico Island (PIX/LPPI), we needed reliable umrah flight catering. Meal counts were accurate, halal requirements were clearly managed, and the delivery was organized for a quick uplift. Good coordination for a high-volume movement. The final handover was simple and there was nothing for the crew to correct before departure.”
★★★★☆Scheduled airline
Victoria — Flight Support Supervisor
Airport catering profile for Pico Island (LPPI / PIX)
| Datum | Value |
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| Longest runway | 1,745 m |
| Runways | 1 |
| Aerodrome reference code | narrow-body |
| ICAO | LPPI |
Aircraft catering questions at Pico Island airport
Diversion catering and ramp questions at Pico Island
What operations gets asked every week about Pico Island.
Ask operations directly →How does LPPI handle VIP, VVIP and government flight catering?
LPPI runs VIP flight catering and government flight catering under one protocol file, with security clearance, sealed uplift and a named coordinator carrying the movement from kitchen to aircraft.
Which special meal sets does Pico Island produce?
The loading cart carries halal, kosher and the full set of IATA SPML codes on a separate line, each documented per passenger before it leaves the kitchen.
When does an order need to be placed for Pico Island?
Once a rotation is confirmed we ask for the standing specification as early as possible, and we still take last minute airline catering changes up to the loading window itself.
Can you tell me what airline catering costs at PIX?
A quotation turns on cabin count, specification and the loading window agreed for the rotation, so airline catering cost is confirmed once those details are in.
Do you deliver airline catering airside at LPPI?
Yes, by hi-loader straight to the galley door, so airside delivery never leaves a cart waiting at the foot of the aircraft.
Commercial aviation catering near Pico Island
HOR / LPHR
Horta
Portugal · 24 km from Pico Island
Airline & VIP flight catering →
SJZ / LPSJ
Velas
Portugal · 26 km from Pico Island
Airline & VIP flight catering →
GRW / LPGR
Santa Cruz da Graciosa
Portugal · 70 km from Pico Island
Airline & VIP flight catering →
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Uplift at Pico Island (PIX)