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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — Ciudad Real, Spain
Airline catering, VIP flight catering and private jet catering at Ciudad Real (LERL / CQM)
CQM (IATA) · LERL (ICAO)
A 4100 m runway and a wide-body reference code let Ciudad Real board full three-cabin rotations rather than turn them away, with inflight catering staged from a dedicated kitchen to hi-loader height. Aviation catering here runs on that same wide-body clearance, and in-flight catering is boarded through the galley door, airside, not left at the foot of the aircraft.
4,100 m
Longest runway
Wide-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 — Ciudad Real
Wide-body inflight catering at CQM
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Aviation catering timeline, order to boarding, at Ciudad Real
Flight catering sealed and logged to the stand at Ciudad Real, Spain
The loading window at Ciudad Real is not a promise, it is a measured sequence: a sealed catering uplift leaves the kitchen, crosses the apron under escort and reaches the galley door within a fixed run. Ramp access is held on our own badges rather than borrowed from a handling agent, which keeps the sequence inside a single chain of custody. Every stage of that run at CQM is timed and logged, not estimated after the fact.
Between our kitchen and the wide-body stand at LERL catering sit screening, an escort through the apron and the ordinary traffic of a working ramp, and none of it is left to chance on the day of a rotation. We plan the galley catering run against the worst of those three, building the schedule around the slowest credible passage rather than the fastest one, so a delay on the apron never becomes a delay at the aircraft door. Temperature is logged when the cart is sealed at the kitchen and logged again at handover at the stand, and the run closes only once a named handler has signed for what boarded, keeping one accountable catering uplift from seal to signature.
One seal, one escort, one signature: the convoy is managed, not the food.
Flight kitchen and crew meals for CQM
Airline food supplier crews cleared for LERL / CQM
The flight kitchen behind Ciudad Real runs hot production, pastry, a cold larder and a protocol line under one roof, all held to a single HACCP standard rather than split across contractors. That structure is what makes airport catering at Ciudad Real workable for a wide-body rotation: a delegation, a full charter and a scheduled outstation leg can be worked from the same larder without one queue slowing another. Airport catering CQM therefore depends less on headcount for any one flight than on how hot, cold and protocol production share that one kitchen, which is also how flight kitchen CQM output stays consistent across a busy day.
The team behind government flight catering at CQM catering is the same named crew on every rotation, not a rotating pool assigned on the day. Security clearance is on file for each of them, each sits on the airside access list, and each is trained to the household standards a royal or state movement expects rather than to a general service brief. That continuity is what lets a sealed uplift move from kitchen to galley with one accountable chain of custody instead of a fresh briefing every time a delegation lands.
Halal airline meals and special meals at LERL
VIP flight catering, specified per passenger at Ciudad Real
Menus at Ciudad Real are written to the cabin and the mission rather than issued from a single fixed list, so a scheduled leg, a full charter and a VVIP movement are never served from the same standing plan. Inflight catering here draws on the produce of the surrounding region in general terms, dairy, orchard fruit and fresh fish worked into the rotation rather than held to a fixed weekly card. Inflight catering CQM is planned by season as much as by cabin, so a summer rotation and a winter one are not fed from an identical brief. Every dietary and religious set is documented per passenger and per cabin before it is produced, not adjusted once it reaches the aircraft.
First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins at Ciudad Real are plated to a written specification rather than a standing menu, with caviar and à-la-carte service available on request for a full rotation. VIP flight catering CQM is filed against that specification before departure, so presentation on the day matches what protocol signed off, not what the kitchen happened to have.
Business cabins
Business cabins routed through LERL take multi-choice hot service built to a cabin specification, with formats sized to the fitted galley rather than adjusted at the door. Crew meals in Ciudad Real, cabin crew meals and pilot meals travel in the same tray sets and meal boxes as the passenger load, boxed against the roster rather than treated as an afterthought.
Protocol & dietary
Protocol and dietary requirements at Ciudad Real are documented per passenger before the flight, covering household, religious and medical sets alongside halal and kosher production and the full range of IATA special meal codes. Inflight catering CQM produces every one of those sets on a separate line, sealed before it leaves that line, so a mixed cabin is served from one accountable kitchen rather than several.
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 Ciudad Real, Spain
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 Ciudad Real (CQM)
Ciudad Real is built around a single wide-body-rated runway of 4100 metres, which sets the traffic this station actually takes: full charters, government movements and scheduled outstation legs rather than a high-frequency short-haul wave. That profile turns airline catering here into a documentation and capacity question first, since a delegation brings a protocol file to match and a full charter brings a three-cabin uplift to load in one pass rather than several.
The route from our kitchen to the aircraft runs airside, sealed cart to stand, with a hi-loader raising the load to galley height rather than leaving it at the foot of the aircraft. Aviation catering CQM and airport catering Spain both move on that same ramp access, held on our own badges, with the loading crew working the stand directly rather than through a third handover.
On every rotation at this station one coordinator owns the load end to end, sealed carts travel under a single chain of custody, and a signed handover closes the run, which is what keeps inflight catering Ciudad Real and in-flight catering Ciudad Real consistent whether the aircraft on the stand is a scheduled service or a state movement.
VVIP catering alongside scheduled flights at CQM
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Government and state flight catering at CQM
The protocol cell built into the kitchen behind Ciudad Real exists for exactly this traffic: state visits and official delegations routed through a single wide-body stand rather than split across a busy commercial apron. Government flight catering at Ciudad Real is documented per passenger, handled by security-cleared staff, and sealed before it leaves the kitchen, with a head of state movement worked to the same protocol file as any other delegation on the roster.
Government & state flights →
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at Ciudad Real
The wide-body reference code that governs the Ciudad Real stand also covers the private airliners this traffic actually flies: BBJ, ACJ and wide-body VIP aircraft loaded through the same hi-loader sequence as a scheduled rotation. Royal flight catering at this station is held to a written household specification kept on file between movements, with VVIP catering repeated from that same file rather than rebuilt each time, and halal and other household dietary requirements produced on request against it.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at LERL
The wide-body stand at Ciudad Real is sized for exactly this load: a full three-cabin uplift counted against the loading sheet and staged in the order the galleys are laid out, not split across partial deliveries. Charter flight catering LERL and charter flight catering CQM both cover ACMI and wet-lease operators, group movements and multi-leg special missions, with tour operator and repatriation or humanitarian charters worked from the same kitchen line as any other wide-body rotation here.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at CQM
The single wide-body-rated runway at Ciudad Real means an ad hoc airline catering call and a scheduled outstation leg draw on the same stand and the same kitchen line rather than separate infrastructure. Outstation catering, diversion catering and technical stop catering run off one duty roster here, AOG included, across a multi-leg rotation. Ad hoc airline catering in Ciudad Real and CQM ad hoc catering both move through that roster, with crew meals Spain and crew meals Ciudad Real boxed to the roster alongside the passenger load, and diversion catering CQM held to the same tray standard even when the call comes with no notice.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at Ciudad Real
The same kitchen line that boards wide-body rotations at Ciudad Real also reaches the GA apron on this field, run through our dedicated private-jet catering branch rather than a separate operation. Private jet catering CQM and FBO catering are delivered to the FBOs on the field and the GA terminal on the same cold chain and the same paperwork as an airline uplift, with business aviation catering and business jet catering both sealed at the kitchen before dispatch.
Private jets →
Aviation catering trusted by operators at LERL
Operators on commercial aviation catering at CQM
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
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Scheduled airline
“We used football club charter catering at Ciudad Real (CQM/LERL) for a team charter and had a good experience. Final numbers changed late and the team adjusted without making the process difficult. 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.”
★★★★★Scheduled airline
Mauro — Trip Planning Manager
“For an urgent mission at Ciudad Real (CQM/LERL), the team supported us with repatriation flight catering. They kept the menu simple, respected the special requirements, and delivered exactly when the aircraft was ready to receive it. A good experience under difficult timing conditions. From an operational point of view, the service was easy to manage and required very little follow-up.”
★★★★★Scheduled airline
Anas — Ground Services Manager
“We used the team at Ciudad Real (CQM/LERL) for cargo airline catering on a night operation. 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.”
★★★★★Private jet operator
Diego — VIP Charter Manager
Airport catering facts for Ciudad Real (LERL / CQM)
| Datum | Value |
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| Longest runway | 4,100 m |
| Runways | 1 |
| Aerodrome reference code | wide-body |
| ICAO | LERL |
Aircraft catering questions at Ciudad Real (CQM)
Outstation catering and access questions at LERL
What operations gets asked every week about Ciudad Real.
Ask operations directly →Does Ciudad Real airport support private jet catering to the FBOs and the GA terminal on the field?
Every business aviation movement at Ciudad Real is provisioned by our dedicated private jet catering branch, delivered to the FBOs on the field and the GA terminal on FBO catering terms that match an airline uplift.
At what point in advance does CQM need a catering order confirmed?
The first step is a firm cabin count and mission type, taken as early as possible and always before specification lock; from there, how far in advance an order is placed still allows the menu and dietary detail to change up to the loading window, which is also how last minute airline catering requests are absorbed without disrupting a scheduled rotation.
Where does an operator find out what airline catering cost at LERL actually depends on?
The signed specification sheet is what a quotation is built against, covering cabin count, menu tier and the loading window rather than a published price list; our desk reviews that sheet and returns a figure specific to the rotation.
Are VIP, VVIP and government flights catered at Ciudad Real under a defined protocol?
The same coordinator who runs a scheduled rotation also runs VIP flight catering and government flight catering at this station, working from a protocol file that is documented per passenger and sealed before the uplift leaves the kitchen.
Jet catering at airports near Ciudad Real
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Airline & VIP flight catering →
MAD / LEMD
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Airline & VIP flight catering →
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Uplift at Ciudad Real (CQM)