Aviation catering — Corvera, Spain

Airline catering, VIP flight catering and private jet catering at Corvera (LEMI / RMU)

RMU (IATA) · LEMI (ICAO)

The wide-body reference code assigned to Corvera sets the aerodrome up for large-cabin operations, and our crews board those aircraft by hi-loader straight to galley height rather than staging trays at the foot of the aircraft. That single method carries every uplift here, from a scheduled rotation to a diplomatic movement, and it is why inflight catering, in-flight catering and aviation catering at this station run off one ops desk rather than three separate ones for Corvera, Spain, at RMU.

A catering hi-loader box raised level with the open galley door of a wide-body, its platform bridged to the doorway.
3,000 m
Longest runway
Wide-body
Largest aircraft handled
1
Runways
01
Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
02
VIP at any volume
8 First covers or 400 passengers across three cabins, same execution
03
24/7 order desk
Ad hoc, AOG and same-day uplift answered around the clock
04
Multi-leg coordination
One loading sheet, every leg of your rotation
A catering hi-loader raised to the aft galley door of a wide-body on stand, its platform level with the doorway and a second truck waiting below.

On the apron — Corvera

Aviation catering with ramp access at Corvera

Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.

Airport catering order window at RMU

Aviation catering from sealed cart to galley door at LEMI / RMU

Every catering uplift bound for the wide-body stand at Corvera starts sealed at our kitchen and ends signed for at the galley door, with nothing left to estimate in between. Ramp access is held on our own clearance rather than requested case by case, so the cart moves the moment the aircraft is on stand and the apron is clear. That single path, from seal to signature, is what a diversion or a technical stop draws on when the window is short.

Four branded catering carts latched side by side in an aircraft galley, each door closed on a coloured seal.

Between the sealed cart and the aircraft at Corvera sit the checks any airside movement carries: screening at the gate, an escort onto the apron, and the traffic already working the stand. We build the galley catering schedule against the slowest of those checks rather than the fastest, so a delay on the apron does not become a delay at the door. Chain of custody runs on that same plan: one escort, one route, one signature. Temperature is logged when the cart is sealed at the kitchen and logged again at the galley, and the catering uplift is not signed over until both readings match the record. Nothing that reaches the aircraft here has travelled unaccounted for.

One coordinator owns the load from the kitchen seal to the galley signature, without a handover in between.

Crew meals from the kitchen serving LEMI

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Pilot meals and cleared production crews for Corvera

The flight kitchen provisioning Corvera runs hot production, pastry, a cold larder and a protocol line under one roof, built to hold the cold chain from sealing to hi-loader without a break in the run. Airport catering at this scale means every tray set leaving the building is already matched to the cabin plan for the stand it is going to, not assembled against a generic count. That same kitchen carries the airport catering load for scheduled, charter and VIP movements alike, produced to HACCP throughout rather than to a separate standard for each. It sits close enough to the ramp that a late change reaches the stand within the loading window rather than the next rotation.

Government flight catering out of this kitchen is handled by a named team, not a rotating shift, so the same faces carry the file from one movement to the next. Every member holds security clearance on record and sits on the access list before a cart is loaded, which is checked at the gate rather than assumed from a badge. They work to the household and protocol standards a delegation or a royal movement requires, with the paperwork travelling sealed alongside the food rather than behind it. That continuity is what lets a repeat rotation move faster each time without cutting a single check.

VIP flight catering and dietary sets at Corvera airport

VVIP catering to a written specification at RMU

Menus for departures out of Corvera are designed to the cabin and the mission rather than to a single fixed offer, with the same specification held for a repeat rotation and revised for a one-off charter. Produce drawn from the surrounding region, orchard fruit, dairy and fish in season, sits alongside standing tray-set formats built for volume, so a VIP flight menu and a charter flight menu can be produced from the same kitchen without either one compromising the other. Every dietary and religious set is documented per passenger and per cabin before it leaves the building, with halal, kosher and the full IATA special meal code range produced as standard rather than as an exception. That documentation is what keeps a delegation flight and a scheduled rotation on the same inflight catering standard leaving Corvera.

Sliced roast pork in gravy with cauliflower, a pressed terrine and a herb oil trail across the plate.

First & VVIP cabins

Plated to specification, with caviar and à-la-carte service on request and the presentation filed against the standing order.

A complete tray set on a black tray: sliced beef fillet in gravy with piped mash and vegetables, a seeded roll with herb butter and a berry dessert in a glass.

Business cabins

Business cabins at Corvera run on multi-choice hot service built to a written cabin specification, boxed into galley-ready tray sets sized to the aircraft on stand. Crew meals, cabin crew meals and pilot meals are boarded separately from the passenger load, boxed to the roster rather than to a fixed count, at RMU.

Diet.

Protocol & dietary

Protocol and dietary requirements out of LEMI are documented per passenger before the cart is sealed, covering halal, kosher, medical and religious sets against the full range of IATA special meal codes. Produced on a separate line from the main cabin run, this inflight catering set is checked twice before it leaves the kitchen and once again at the galley door.

The three books

A tray set on a stainless steel bench: a plated fish fillet with rice and vegetables, a bread roll with herb butter, and a berry dessert in a glass.

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Royal & Government Flights

Royal households · government · state operations

  • Plated service · First to main cabin
  • Protocol handling · security clearance
Chefs plating a long line of identical main courses under heat lamps, with loaded catering trolleys waiting at the end of the line.

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Charter & Commercial

Charter · ACMI · group · scheduled · ad hoc

  • 400 passengers · one uplift
  • HACCP cold chain, logged to the galley door
A business jet cabin credenza laid with chilled sparkling wine in a bucket, bottled drinks, a nut dish and folded napkins on a silver tray, beside a single passenger seat.

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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 Corvera (RMU)

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 Corvera, Spain

Corvera's wide-body reference code puts scheduled, charter and government movements on the same stand rather than splitting them across separate aprons, which turns each of those flights into a different planning problem: a delegation is a documentation exercise, a charter wave is a capacity exercise, a repeat rotation is a repetition exercise. Airline catering here is planned against whichever of those is on the board that day, not against a single generic template.

The uplift reaches the aircraft by the same route each time: sealed at our kitchen, escorted onto the apron, boarded by hi-loader directly to the galley door rather than staged at the foot of the aircraft on a dolly. Aviation catering handled this way keeps the same crew on the ramp from seal to signature, so nothing changes hands unaccounted for between the kitchen and the stand. In-flight catering and inflight catering at LEMI both draw on that one sequence rather than on separate ones for each segment.

We commit to one coordinator per rotation, sealed carts logged at both ends, and a signed handover at the galley door before the aircraft is released for boarding.

Commercial aviation catering for every mission at Corvera

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Government and state flight catering at Corvera
A head of state aircraft on the wide-body stand at Corvera draws on the reference code that clears it to land here in the first place, and government flight catering follows from that same clearance. Protocol is documented per passenger, staff are security-cleared before the file is opened, and the uplift is sealed at the kitchen before it ever reaches the apron.
Government & state flights →
Royal vvip food.
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at LEMI
On the wide-body stand cleared by Corvera's own reference code, a private airliner draws on the same runway length as a scheduled service, which is what lets BBJ, ACJ and wide-body VIP movements land here at all. Royal flight catering and VVIP work are held to a written household specification kept on file between movements, with halal and household dietary requirements produced on request.
Royal & VVIP flights →
Charter flight catering first.
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at RMU
Loading a full three-cabin charter against a 3,000 metre runway means the loading sheet, not the runway, sets the pace of the sequence at Corvera. Charter flight catering for ACMI and wet-lease operators, group movements and special missions is staged in the order the galleys are laid out, with charter flight catering counted cart by cart against that sheet before the aircraft is released.
Wide-body charter →
A complete tray set on a black tray: a hot egg and ham dish, cut fruit, breads, a pastry, a set yoghurt and a portion of preserve.
04
Airline and ad hoc catering at Corvera
Corvera's wide-body reference code lets a carrier work this station as an outstation without downgrading the tray standard from its home base, and that is where ad hoc airline catering starts. Outstation catering, diversion catering and technical stop catering run off the same duty roster, AOG included, across a multi-leg rotation that may only touch this stand once.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at LEMI
The same 3,000 metre runway that clears a wide-body charter for Corvera also carries the business aviation traffic worked from the GA terminal and the FBOs on the field. Private jet catering at this station is delivered to those aprons on the same cold chain and the same sealed paperwork as an airline uplift, run through our dedicated branch rather than a separate one.
Private jets →

Inflight catering trusted by operators at RMU

Operators on commercial aviation catering at LEMI

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Government flight department

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Royal household

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Charter operator

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Scheduled airline

“For a team flight from Corvera (RMU/LEMI), we booked sports team flight meals with several dietary requests. The meals were clearly labeled, portions were suitable for the group, and the delivery stayed on time despite a moving departure. A good partner for sports charter operations. The final handover was simple and there was nothing for the crew to correct before departure.”

★★★★★

Private jet operator

Boris — Cabin Service Coordinator

“Our flight through Corvera (RMU/LEMI) required evacuation flight catering with limited preparation time. The team understood that reliability mattered more than complexity and stayed flexible until uplift. Strong support for a demanding operation. Responses were quick whenever we had a question, which helped us keep the flight on schedule.”

★★★★☆

Charter operator

Denis — Crew Operations Coordinator

“For a cargo sector from Corvera (RMU/LEMI), we arranged cargo airline crew catering for the operating crew. Meals arrived on time and were packed practically for a working crew rather than over-presented. Simple, efficient, and on time. Responses were quick whenever we had a question, which helped us keep the flight on schedule.”

★★★★☆

Scheduled airline

Zara — Airport Duty Manager

Aircraft catering station data for Corvera (LEMI / RMU)

DatumValue
Longest runway3,000 m
Runways1
Aerodrome reference codewide-body
ICAOLEMI

Business jet catering questions at Corvera airport

Diversion catering and ramp questions at Corvera airport

What operations gets asked every week about Corvera.

Ask operations directly →
At Corvera, what is the lead time for placing an order, and how late can the specification still change?

The last cart sealed before departure can still carry a specification change if it reaches the kitchen ahead of the loading window; for a first order, we ask for as much notice as the rotation allows, though last minute airline catering is handled when a diversion or technical stop leaves no other option.

Does airline catering cost the same for every movement through RMU?

Every quotation is built on the cabin count, the specification and the loading window rather than on a fixed rate, so airline catering cost is confirmed once those three are known and the desk comes back with a figure before the order is locked.

Who signs off VIP, VVIP and government flight catering at LEMI, and under what protocol?

Across every movement in that category, VIP flight catering and government flight catering are handled by the same named, security-cleared team, with the protocol file documented per passenger before the cart is sealed.

How far in advance are halal, kosher and the full IATA special meal code range confirmed for departures out of Corvera?

Held to the same HACCP standard as the main cabin run, halal, kosher and SPML-coded special meals are produced on a separate line and can be confirmed as soon as the passenger count and dietary file are received.

Is airline catering delivered airside at Corvera, and how does the uplift reach the aircraft?

The loading coordinator escorts every sealed cart from the kitchen onto the apron and boards it by hi-loader directly to the galley door, so airside delivery never depends on a belt loader or a stand-side handoff.

Inflight catering at other airports near Corvera

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Charter flight catering quote for Corvera, Spain

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Corvera (RMU / LEMI)

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Four steps

Flight

Aircraft · stand · local time

Offloading

Return leg, if any

Order

Counts · menus · files

Contact

Who we come back to

Step 1 of 4 · Flight

Flight

The airport is already filled in. Change it if the uplift boards elsewhere.

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Local time at the airport of delivery.
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Offloading

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Uplift at Corvera (RMU)