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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — Dezful, Iran
Wide-body airline catering, VIP & private jet catering at Dezful (OIAD / DEF)
DEF (IATA) · OIAD (ICAO)
A wide-body aircraft on a rotation through Dezful boards against a 3853 m runway built for the type, so inflight catering here is planned for full three-cabin loads rather than a light regional turn. In-flight catering reaches the galley by hi-loader, sealed at our kitchen and boarded straight to door height, with inflight catering scheduled around the same wide-body movement the field was built to take.
3,853 m
Longest runway
Wide-body
Largest aircraft handled
2
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 — Dezful
Hi-loader boarding for inflight catering at OIAD
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Airport catering order window at DEF
Aircraft catering handover at the galley door, OIAD / DEF
The loading window measured at this station starts when the cart is sealed at our kitchen and ends when the galley door is signed for, with ramp access held on our own clearance rather than a delivery to the aircraft steps. Every stage of that catering uplift is logged against the same reference code the field holds for wide-body work. Nothing about the sequence is estimated: it is timed, checked and signed at each handover.
Between our kitchen and the stand at Dezful sit screening, escort clearance and apron traffic building around a wide-body movement, and the sequence is planned against the worst of those three rather than the average. A convoy delayed at the checkpoint is a bigger risk to the galley catering than anything produced in the kitchen, which is why the escort is booked before the cart is sealed, not after. Temperature is logged at sealing and logged again at handover, and the catering uplift only closes once a signature confirms both readings match the record.
One coordinator, one sealed cart, one signature from kitchen to galley door.
Crew meals and pilot meals for OIAD departures
Cargo crew meals produced to the same standard at Dezful
The flight kitchen behind Dezful runs hot production, pastry, a cold larder and a protocol cell under one roof, built to feed a wide-body rotation rather than a single narrow-body turn. Airport catering at DEF is produced to HACCP standard from that one site, with the cold chain held from the moment a tray is packed to the moment it clears the galley door. Airport catering at OIAD depends on that facility working as one line, because a flight kitchen at DEF split across sites would break the same chain of custody it is built to protect.
The team behind government flight catering at this kitchen is the same named crew on every rotation, not a rotating pool assigned by shift. Security clearance is held on file for each of them, access to the kitchen and the ramp is limited to that list, and household service standards are trained into the team rather than issued as a one-off briefing. Catering at DEF for a state or royal movement therefore draws on people who already hold the clearance, not people cleared after the booking is made.
Halal airline meals and special meals at Dezful airport
Royal flight catering standards per cabin at DEF
Menus for Dezful are written to the cabin and the mission rather than to a single fixed offer, so a scheduled turn and a state movement do not draw on the same specification. Iran's produce, from orchard fruit to dairy and fresh fish, is worked into the seasonal range where the rotation allows it, without naming a supplier or a single dish on the sheet. Inflight catering at DEF carries documented allergen, halal, kosher and medical sets, each one labelled per passenger and per cabin rather than issued as a single tray for the row. That labelling is what lets a mixed cabin of standard and special meal passengers board from the same cart without a mix-up at the galley.
First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins at OIAD are plated to a written specification rather than a fixed set menu, with caviar and à-la-carte service available on request for a state or private movement. VIP flight catering here is filed against the standing order held for the operator, so a repeat rotation through Dezful draws on the same presentation each time rather than a fresh brief.
Business cabins
Business cabins at Dezful run on multi-choice hot service built to cabin specification, with oven-ready formats sized to the galley fitted to the aircraft on the stand. Crew meals and pilot meals are boxed separately to the roster, and cabin crew meals in Dezful travel on the same tray sets and meal boxes as the passenger load rather than a late addition to the cart.
Protocol & dietary
Protocol and dietary requirements at OIAD are documented per passenger, covering household, religious and medical sets alongside halal and kosher trays and the full range of IATA special meal codes. Inflight catering at OIAD produces these on a separate line from the standard cabin service and seals them before the cart leaves the kitchen, so a mixed-diet cabin boards as one sealed load 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
Cold chain and HACCP for aircraft catering at OIAD / DEF
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 Dezful, Iran
Dezful's runway, at 3853 m, and its wide-body reference code point to a station built for larger aircraft rather than light regional traffic, and that shapes the uplift as much as any timetable does: a full wide-body load means more trays staged, more galleys to sequence and a longer loading run than a narrow-body turn would need. Airline catering at this scale is planned stand by stand rather than gate by gate, with in-flight catering in Dezful scheduled around the same movement the two runways were built to support.
The uplift itself moves from the kitchen to the stand by sealed cart, boarded through hi-loader access to galley height rather than left at the foot of the aircraft, with our own crew on the ramp for the handover. Aviation catering in Iran run this way keeps the convoy, not the food, as the variable to plan against, and airport catering in Dezful is staged so the cart reaches the galley door on the same schedule the stand was booked for.
On every rotation through DEF, one coordinator carries the booking from kitchen to signature, with sealed carts and a signed handover closing the loop on each stand.
VVIP catering alongside scheduled flights at OIAD
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Government and state flight catering at DEF
A wide-body reference code held at this field means a delegation aircraft is sequenced the same way as any other wide-body movement, which keeps a state visit from disrupting the loading plan around it. Government flight catering for a head of state movement through Dezful is documented per passenger, staffed by security-cleared crew, and sealed before the cart leaves the kitchen.
Government & state flights →
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at Dezful
The reference code held at OIAD is wide-body, which allows a private airliner on royal or VVIP tasking to be worked to the same standard as a scheduled wide-body movement rather than a smaller business jet routine. Royal flight catering here covers BBJ, ACJ and other wide-body VIP types, held to a written household specification kept on file between movements, with halal and household dietary sets produced on request.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at OIAD
Our kitchen plans against the wide-body reference code held at this field, staging a full three-cabin uplift for whatever charter movement is booked onto the stand rather than a reduced single-class load. Charter flight catering at DEF covers ACMI and wet-lease operators, group movements and multi-leg missions, counted against the loading sheet and staged in the order the galleys are laid out for that airframe.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at DEF
With two runways and a wide-body reference code behind it, Dezful is built to take more than a scheduled turn, and that capacity is what carries the ad hoc airline catering load when a carrier needs the station on short notice. Outstation catering, diversion catering and technical stop catering run off the same duty roster here, with AOG covered on the same terms across a multi-leg rotation.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at Dezful
The 3853 m runway at Dezful takes business aviation traffic alongside the wide-body movements the field was built for, and that shared ramp is where private jet catering is delivered to the FBOs on the field and the GA terminal. Business aviation catering and business jet catering here run on the same cold chain and the same paperwork as an airline uplift, with FBO catering sealed at the same kitchen.
Private jets →
Charter flight catering trusted by operators at Dezful airport
Ops desks rating airline catering services at OIAD
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
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Scheduled airline
“We arranged sports team charter catering for the group at Dezful (DEF/OIAD) after a late schedule update. They handled the nutrition requests well and kept everything organized for fast distribution onboard. A good partner for sports charter operations. The order was complete on arrival and easy for us to check before closing the doors.”
★★★★★Scheduled airline
Malik — Flight Support Manager
“For an urgent mission at Dezful (DEF/OIAD), the team supported us with troop flight catering. The meals were practical, clearly packed, and easy for the crew to distribute during the flight. We appreciated the flexibility. Responses were quick whenever we had a question, which helped us keep the flight on schedule.”
★★★★☆Scheduled airline
Abel — Station Operations Manager
“Our freighter crew needed cargo airline catering at Dezful (DEF/OIAD) during a short turnaround. They respected the unusual timing and kept communication direct with our ops team. We would use them again for another cargo sector. Updates were timely and the final delivery matched the confirmation we had from operations.”
★★★★☆Private jet operator
Eduardo — VIP Account Manager
Station data for aviation catering at Dezful (OIAD / DEF)
| Datum | Value |
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| Longest runway | 3,853 m |
| Runways | 2 |
| Aerodrome reference code | wide-body |
| ICAO | OIAD |
Aviation catering FAQ for Dezful, Iran
Diversion catering and ramp questions at Dezful airport
What operations gets asked every week about Dezful.
Ask operations directly →How far in advance does Dezful airport need halal, kosher or SPML orders confirmed?
The standard is set at sealing: halal and kosher trays and the full range of IATA special meal codes are produced on a separate line and documented per passenger before the cart leaves the kitchen, so special meals are confirmed against the same lead time as the rest of the cabin.
Whose protocol governs VIP, VVIP and government flight catering at DEF?
For a state, royal or VVIP movement through Dezful, VIP flight catering and government flight catering both run under one protocol file: security-cleared staff, documentation per passenger and a sealed uplift before departure.
Does OIAD publish a fixed airline catering cost?
Every quotation depends on cabin count, specification and the loading window booked for the stand, since no price list is published; the desk returns a quote once those three are known.
At which point does private jet catering reach the FBOs and the GA terminal at Dezful?
The sealed cart leaves our kitchen first and is delivered airside straight to the FBO or the GA terminal, with FBO catering carried on the same cold chain and paperwork as an airline uplift.
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Airline catering quote for Dezful, Iran
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