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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — Madrid, Spain
Wide-body airline catering, VIP flight catering and private jet catering at Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (LEMD / MAD), Madrid
MAD (IATA) · LEMD (ICAO)
Four runways and a wide-body reference code let Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport receive scheduled, charter, government and private flying on the same stands, and our inflight catering runs off that capacity every day. Loading is by hi-loader to galley height, not delivery to the foot of the aircraft, so in-flight catering here keeps one ops desk, airside movement and inflight catering continuity across a multi-leg rotation in Madrid, Spain.
4,350 m
Longest runway
Wide-body
Largest aircraft handled
4
Runways
4
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 — Madrid
Inflight catering loaded to galley height at Madrid
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Inflight catering order window at MAD
In-flight catering, sealed cart to galley door, Madrid
The loading window at LEMD is measured from the sealed cart leaving our kitchen to the signature at the galley door, not estimated from a departure board. Every catering uplift crosses landside screening, an escorted apron run and the ramp access that gets it onto a wide-body stand before the crew even opens the manifest. That sequence is what a multi-leg rotation through Madrid actually depends on, more than any single figure on a slip.
Between our kitchen and the stand at Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport sit landside screening, an escort across the apron and the ordinary traffic of a live ramp, and each of those is a point where a catering uplift can be slowed rather than stopped. We plan the galley catering run against the worst case on each of them, not the average one, because the convoy is the actual risk in this operation, not the food sitting sealed inside it. Temperatures are logged when the cart is sealed at the kitchen and logged again at handover, with the chain of custody closed by a signature at the galley door before the loading crew steps back off the aircraft.
One coordinator owns the seal at the kitchen and the signature at the galley door.
Airline food supplier kitchen serving Madrid airport
Pilot meals and cleared production crews for MAD
The flight kitchen behind airport catering at Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport runs hot production, pastry, a cold larder and a protocol line under one roof, which is what lets a wide-body rotation and a single VIP tray leave the same building on the same morning. Airport catering in Madrid is built on that arrangement rather than on any single measurement of distance, because the four sections work to one HACCP standard and one schedule instead of four separate ones. Airport catering Spain regulation applies to every batch that leaves the kitchen, and the cold chain that starts at production is the same one carried onto the ramp at flight kitchen MAD.
The team that handles government flight catering at Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport is the same named crew on every rotation, carried on the access list rather than rotated in ad hoc for a single movement. Security clearance is held on file in advance, and the crew is trained to royal household standards as well as to the paperwork that has to travel with a sealed uplift. That continuity is what LEMD catering depends on when a delegation or a household movement is booked with little public notice.
VIP flight catering menus for Madrid (MAD) departures
Commercial aviation catering written per cabin at LEMD
Menus at Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport are written to the cabin and the mission rather than to a single fixed list, so a short domestic rotation and a long-haul VIP flight menu do not share a specification. Inflight catering here draws on Spanish produce in general terms, dairy, orchard fruit and fish worked into seasonal menus rather than a fixed regional card. Charter flight menu work and scheduled airline cycles are planned on the same seasonal base, adjusted for cabin count and mission length rather than rebuilt from scratch each time. Allergen, halal, kosher and medical sets are documented per passenger and per cabin, produced and labelled before they leave the kitchen rather than sorted on the aircraft.
First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins at Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport are plated to a written specification rather than a general standard, with VIP flight catering covering à-la-carte and caviar service on request. Every presentation is filed against the standing order, so a repeat rotation through MAD is served to the same brief each time rather than reinterpreted.
Business cabins
Business cabins at Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport run on multi-choice hot service built to cabin specification, boxed into oven-ready formats sized to the galley fitted to the aircraft. Crew meals near Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport are prepared alongside cabin crew meals and pilot meals, all boxed against the duty roster rather than left to be assembled on board.
Protocol & dietary
Protocol and dietary work at LEMD covers household, religious and medical requirements documented per passenger, with halal and kosher sets produced to the full range of IATA special meal codes. Every set is built on a separate production line and sealed before it leaves that line, so inflight catering near Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport keeps a dietary set traceable back to the passenger it was written for.
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 Madrid (MAD)
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 LEMD / MAD
Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport runs four runways up to 4,350 metres and a wide-body reference code, which puts scheduled long-haul, charter and government movements on the same stands rather than on a segregated apron. That mix turns airport catering MAD into three separate problems handled from one desk: a delegation is a documentation problem before it is a meal, a bank of scheduled departures is a capacity problem measured in trays per hour, and a repeat rotation is a matter of holding the same specification twice running rather than rewriting it. Aviation catering Madrid moves from our kitchen to the ramp under escort, boarded by hi-loader to galley height, with the loading crew working from the same ramp access on every rotation regardless of airline or mission. Inflight catering at Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport and the airline catering LEMD desk share one dispatch board, so a wide-body long-haul and a narrow-body ad hoc uplift are planned stand by stand rather than queued behind each other. What we commit to on this station is one coordinator, sealed carts and a signed handover at the galley door, regardless of which of the four segments the flight belongs to.
Aviation catering for five mission types at Madrid
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Government and state flight catering at MAD
The wide-body stands and the ramp access that serve scheduled long-haul at Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport are the same ones used for a head of state movement, which keeps official traffic inside the ordinary flow rather than a separate one. Government flight catering here documents the protocol file per passenger, with security-cleared staff and the uplift sealed before it leaves the kitchen for any state visit or delegation booked through this station.
Government & state flights →
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at Madrid
Wide-body stands built for scheduled long-haul at Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport also take the private airliners a royal household movement typically flies, from a BBJ to a full ACJ configuration. Royal flight catering at MAD catering is held to a written household specification kept on file between movements, with halal and other household dietary requirements produced on request rather than improvised on the day.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at LEMD
The four runways and wide-body stands at Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport carry the group movements and ACMI rotations that scheduled airline traffic shares the apron with. Charter flight catering Madrid covers wet-lease operators and special missions with a full three-cabin uplift counted against the loading sheet, and charter flight catering Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport is staged in the order the galleys are laid out for each aircraft type.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at MAD
Four runways and wide-body stands at Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport put scheduled long-haul next to ad hoc movements on the same apron, which is what ad hoc airline catering here is actually built around. Outstation catering, diversion catering and technical stop catering run off one duty roster, AOG included, with MAD ad hoc catering covering a multi-leg rotation and crew meals Spain-wide handled to the same specification whether the aircraft was scheduled to be here or not.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at Madrid
The same wide-body stands and ramp access that carry scheduled long-haul at Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport also reach the GA terminal and the FBOs on the field, so business aviation is not worked from a separate kitchen. Private jet catering Spain runs through our dedicated branch on the same cold chain and paperwork as an airline uplift, with business aviation catering and business jet catering both delivered under one FBO catering process rather than two.
Private jets →
FBOs at Madrid
aviavip
general aviation service sl
sky valet spain
united aviation services s.l.
Charter flight catering reviewed at MAD
Protocol teams on VVIP catering at Madrid airport
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
Scheduled airline
“We were looking for a dependable airline catering partner in Madrid (MAD/LEMD) and the process was straightforward. One contact handled the order from confirmation through delivery, which saved our dispatch team a lot of follow-up. We would use the service again without hesitation. From an operational point of view, the service was easy to manage and required very little follow-up.”
★★★★★Charter operator
Karim — Ad Hoc Operations Manager
“I arranged VIP flight catering in Madrid for our departure from MAD/LEMD. The order was confirmed quickly, delivered on time, and packed exactly as requested for the aircraft. We had a smooth experience from order to delivery. That made the turnaround easier for both the flight crew and the team on the ground.”
★★★★★Charter operator
Faris — Flight Operations Supervisor
“We had several special meal codes on our order at Madrid (MAD/LEMD) and everything was handled correctly. Each item was clearly identified, separated from the standard meals, and easy to check before boarding. That attention to detail makes a big difference onboard. Responses were quick whenever we had a question, which helped us keep the flight on schedule.”
★★★★★Scheduled airline
Lorenzo — Operations Support Coordinator
Madrid (LEMD / MAD): airport catering data
| Datum | Value |
|---|---|
| Longest runway | 4,350 m |
| Runways | 4 |
| Aerodrome reference code | wide-body |
| ICAO | LEMD |
Airline catering services FAQ for Madrid (MAD)
Crew meals, lead times and access at Madrid (MAD)
What operations gets asked every week about Madrid.
Ask operations directly →At what point does VIP, VVIP and government flight catering follow a documented protocol at MAD?
The protocol file opens before the aircraft is confirmed, so VIP flight catering and government flight catering are already documented by the time the uplift is scheduled, with the same file governing security clearance and handover through to the stand.
Does LEMD offer airline catering delivered airside, boarded directly onto the aircraft?
Every aircraft at LEMD is boarded by hi-loader to galley height rather than met with a delivery at the foot of the steps, and airside delivery is the standard method for airline catering on every stand this station operates.
How far does private jet catering reach across the FBOs and the GA terminal in Madrid?
The same cold chain and paperwork used on an airline uplift covers every FBO on the field and the GA terminal, so private jet catering in Madrid is not a separate process from the one run for scheduled traffic.
Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport: are halal, kosher and the IATA special meal codes produced here, and how are they documented?
The trolleys and tray sets used for the main cabin also carry halal, kosher and the full range of SPML codes, each one labelled per passenger and produced on a separate line before it is sealed for boarding.
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