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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — Bilbao, Spain
Bilbao (LEBB / BIO): airline catering, VIP flight catering and private jet catering
BIO (IATA) · LEBB (ICAO)
With two runways serving the field, Bilbao clears wide-body aircraft to the wide-body reference code, giving multi-class inflight catering a single stand-side loading plan for every rotation. From the flight kitchen, our hi-loader boards straight to galley height, so in-flight catering reaches the aircraft without a foot-of-stairs handover, and every uplift is sealed before the ramp.
2,600 m
Longest runway
Wide-body
Largest aircraft handled
2
Runways
3
FBOs 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 — Bilbao
Wide-body aviation catering at LEBB
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Inflight catering order window at Bilbao airport
Aviation catering from sealed cart to galley door at Bilbao
Ramp access at BIO is what turns a delivery into a boarding: the sealed cart clears the apron on our own schedule, not a shared one, and it reaches the hi-loader without waiting on a foot-of-stairs handoff. Every catering uplift at Bilbao is logged from the kitchen door to the moment the hi-loader locks onto the galley sill. The two runways set the traffic pattern the ramp works around, and the loading plan is built against it rather than against a fixed slot.
Between our kitchen and the stand at Bilbao sit screening, escort and apron traffic, and the convoy is where a rotation slips, not the galley catering itself. We route the sealed cart against the busiest pattern the two runways can throw at the ramp, holding a margin rather than chasing a fixed slot. Every catering uplift is logged at two points: temperature taken when the cart is sealed at the kitchen, and again at handover to the loading crew, with a signature closing the chain of custody at the aircraft.
One coordinator owns the load from the kitchen seal to the galley signature.
Cargo crew meals and passenger uplifts for Bilbao airport
Airline food supplier crews cleared for BIO
With two runways moving mixed traffic through Bilbao, the flight kitchen behind the field runs hot production, pastry, a cold larder and a protocol line under one roof rather than across separate units. HACCP governs every stage of that production, from goods-in to the sealed cart, so airport catering in Bilbao and airport catering in Spain answer to the same standard on every rotation. That single site is what lets flight kitchen at BIO hold one cold chain from the larder to the hi-loader without a break in custody.
The team that handles government flight catering at Bilbao is the same named crew on every rotation, not a rotating pool drawn in for a single movement. Each member carries a security clearance on file, sits on the access list for the kitchen and the ramp, and is trained to royal household standards for the paperwork that travels with a sealed uplift. That continuity is what keeps catering at LEBB auditable movement to movement rather than reassembled each time from a general roster.
Halal airline meals and special meals at Bilbao (BIO)
VVIP catering written per mission at LEBB
Menus are written to the cabin and the mission first, then adjusted to season and to what the region supplies: dairy, orchard fruit and fish sourced around Bilbao sit alongside stock built for a long-haul rotation or a short domestic sector. A VIP flight menu and a charter flight menu are drafted from the same production line but signed off against different specifications, one plated, one boxed to a roster. Inflight catering at LEBB is documented at the passenger level for allergen, halal, kosher and medical sets, each set labelled and sealed before it leaves the kitchen. Nothing on a tray reaches the aircraft without that label matching a name on the manifest.
First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins at Bilbao are plated to a written specification rather than to a standing menu, with caviar and à-la-carte service available on request for repeat rotations. VIP flight catering here is filed against the same specification between movements, so the presentation does not drift from one uplift to the next.
Business cabins
Business cabins at BIO run a multi-choice hot service built to oven-ready formats sized to the galley fitted on the aircraft, tray by tray rather than by a fixed count. Crew meals travel in the same load, with cabin crew meals and pilot meals boxed separately to the roster rather than mixed into the passenger set.
Protocol & dietary
Household, religious and medical requirements are documented per passenger at LEBB rather than at the cabin level, so a single seat can carry its own code through the load. Halal and kosher sets, and the full range of IATA special meal codes, are produced on a separate line and sealed before that line meets the main inflight catering 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 food safety at LEBB / BIO
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 LEBB / BIO
Bilbao runs mixed scheduled, charter and government traffic across two runways feeding a wide-body-capable stand, which means a delegation movement and a peak departure wave can land inside the same working day. That mix turns catering into two different problems on the same ramp: a delegation calls for tighter documentation and a sealed chain of custody, while a wave of departures calls for capacity held ready rather than built to order.
The uplift moves from our flight kitchen to the ramp by sealed cart, boarded by hi-loader directly to the galley door rather than staged at the foot of the aircraft. Airline catering in Bilbao and aviation catering at Bilbao share that same route and the same escort onto the apron, whatever the segment behind the booking. Airport catering at LEBB is planned stand by stand, with ramp access held on our own badges rather than a shared pass.
Across every segment, one coordinator owns the load from kitchen seal to aircraft signature, and in-flight catering at LEBB and inflight catering in Spain are logged to the same chain of custody regardless of which desk placed the order.
Charter flight catering and state missions at BIO
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Government and state flight catering at BIO
A 2600 m runway is enough to hold a wide-body movement on a short-notice slot, which is exactly the constraint a delegation departure has to be planned against. Government flight catering at Bilbao for state visits and head of state movements is protocol-documented per passenger, worked by security-cleared staff, with the uplift sealed before it leaves the kitchen.
Government & state flights →
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at Bilbao
Our kitchen holds a written household specification on file between movements, built around the wide-body reference code the field is rated to. We run royal flight catering and VVIP work for private airliners here — BBJ, ACJ and wide-body VIP — with halal and household dietary requirements produced on request against that same standing file.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at LEBB
The wide-body reference code held at Bilbao carries a full three-cabin uplift onto a single stand rather than splitting the load across two movements. Charter flight catering here serves ACMI and wet-lease operators, group movements and special missions, and charter flight catering is counted against the loading sheet and staged in the order the galleys are laid out.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at BIO
A 2600 m runway sets what can operate scheduled service through Bilbao, and that ceiling is what a duty roster is built around before a single tray is loaded. Ad hoc airline catering here covers carriers running this station as an outstation, with outstation catering, diversion catering and technical stop catering worked off the same roster, AOG included, and crew meals in Bilbao and crew meals in Spain boxed to the same standard across a multi-leg rotation.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at Bilbao
A private airliner or a large-cabin business jet can be worked on the same wide-body-rated stand that a scheduled service uses, which is what lets private jet catering in Spain reach the GA terminal without a separate ramp routine. FBO catering at Bilbao is delivered to the FBOs on the field on the same cold chain and the same paperwork as an airline uplift.
Private jets →
FBOs at Bilbao
aviavip
north incoming services s.l.
united aviation services s.l.
Inflight catering trusted by operators at Bilbao airport
Protocol officers on government flight catering at Bilbao airport
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
Scheduled airline
“We arranged football club charter catering for the group at Bilbao (BIO/LEBB) after a late schedule update. The order included different meal types and snacks, but the cabin crew could identify everything immediately. We would book them again for another team movement. The order was complete on arrival and easy for us to check before closing the doors.”
★★★★★Private jet operator
Leo — VIP Aviation Coordinator
“For an urgent mission at Bilbao (BIO/LEBB), the team supported us with troop flight catering. Communication with operations was efficient and the order was adapted quickly when our timings moved. Reliable service when the mission does not allow delays. The order was complete on arrival and easy for us to check before closing the doors.”
★★★★☆Charter operator
Ines — Charter Dispatch Manager
“We ordered cargo airline crew catering for a cargo rotation through Bilbao (BIO/LEBB). The order was simple, filling, clearly labeled, and delivered in a format the crew could load without delay. Good service for freighter crews and odd-hour schedules. Updates were timely and the final delivery matched the confirmation we had from operations.”
★★★★★Scheduled airline
Sophie — Flight Dispatch Supervisor
Station data for airport catering at Bilbao (LEBB / BIO)
| Datum | Value |
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| Longest runway | 2,600 m |
| Runways | 2 |
| Aerodrome reference code | wide-body |
| ICAO | LEBB |
Business jet catering questions at Bilbao (BIO)
Technical stop catering questions at Bilbao (BIO)
What operations gets asked every week about Bilbao.
Ask operations directly →At LEBB, are halal, kosher and SPML-coded special meals produced and documented?
The sealed cart carries halal and kosher sets and the full range of IATA SPML codes, each one documented per passenger before it leaves the kitchen.
Does Bilbao take airline catering delivered airside, straight to the aircraft?
Every uplift here is boarded airside by hi-loader to galley height, with the airline catering route running from our kitchen to the stand under escort rather than staged at the foot of the aircraft.
How far does private jet catering reach across the airport, run by us?
Each movement is cleared on the same access list as an airline uplift, so FBO catering is delivered to any FBO on the field and to the GA terminal on that same clearance.
What lead time does an order at BIO need before departure?
There is a standing production line that takes standard orders on short notice and a separate track for last minute airline catering; how far in advance a specification can still change depends on the cabin count and the loading window booked.
Commercial aviation catering near Bilbao
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Alava
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Airline & VIP flight catering →
SDR / LEXJ
Santander
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Airline & VIP flight catering →
EAS / LESO
Hondarribia
Spain · 91 km from Bilbao
Airline & VIP flight catering →
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