Aviation catering — Isfahan, Iran

Airside airline catering, VIP & private jet catering at Isfahan (OIFM / IFN)

IFN (IATA) · OIFM (ICAO)

The wide-body reference code carried by this field means a full three-cabin rotation can be boarded here without splitting the load. Inflight catering moves straight from our kitchen to hi-loader, up to galley height, airside; in-flight catering leaves nothing at the foot of the aircraft, and the uplift stays on one ops desk.

A catering hi-loader raised to the forward galley door of a wide-body on stand, the platform level with the doorway and the truck squared up beneath it.
4,397 m
Longest runway
Wide-body
Largest aircraft handled
2
Runways
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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
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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 — Isfahan

Aviation catering with ramp access at Isfahan (IFN)

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

Airport catering order window at Isfahan airport

Flight catering sealed and logged to the stand at IFN

Ramp access at Isfahan is what turns a measured loading window into a kept one: the cart leaves our kitchen sealed and moves straight to the aircraft rather than to a holding point on the apron. A catering uplift staged this way is checked once at departure from the kitchen and once again at the aircraft, with nothing handled in between. The same sequence holds for a scheduled rotation, a diversion or a VIP movement worked to a tighter window.

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

Between our kitchen and the stand at Isfahan sit screening, escort and the ordinary traffic of a working apron, and the sequence is planned against the busiest of them rather than the average one. A catering uplift moves under one escort from seal to stand, with the chain of custody held by a single named handover rather than passed between several. Galley catering is logged twice on temperature, once at sealing and once at handover, and the load is not closed out until both readings and a signature are on file.

One seal at the kitchen, one signature at the aircraft, nothing handled in between.

Airline food supplier kitchen serving Isfahan (IFN)

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Pilot meals and cleared production crews for OIFM

Airport catering at Isfahan is produced under one roof: hot production, pastry, a cold larder and a protocol cell working to the same schedule rather than four separate suppliers. Airport catering at OIFM is run to a written HACCP standard, with the cold chain held from the moment a tray is sealed to the moment it reaches the galley door. The flight kitchen at IFN is built to carry a full three-cabin rotation and a VIP movement on the same shift without either one waiting on the other.

The team behind government flight catering at Isfahan is the same named crew on every rotation, not a rotating pool assigned on the day. Security clearance is held on file for each member, access to the kitchen and the ramp is limited to that list, and every person on it is trained to royal household standards as well as to airline protocol. That pairing is what lets one kitchen carry a scheduled rotation and a state movement in the same week without changing team or procedure.

Kosher inflight catering and dietary sets at Isfahan, Iran

Commercial aviation catering written per cabin at Isfahan airport

Menus at Isfahan are written to the cabin, the mission and the season rather than to a fixed printed card, so a scheduled rotation and a VIP movement can run from the same kitchen on the same day without either one being generic. Inflight catering here draws on the region's produce where the season allows it: orchard fruit, dairy and fish worked into a set built for the cabin it serves, not into a single dish description. Local sourcing shapes the seasonal set without ever narrowing what a cabin can be served on a given rotation. Every tray closes on a documented allergen, halal, kosher and medical set, labelled per passenger and per cabin so the crew can match it against the manifest without a second check.

Rows of smoked salmon rolls on dark bread rounds, each finished with a spoon of caviar, staged on a white service tray.

First & VVIP cabins

First and VVIP cabins at Isfahan carry VIP flight catering plated to a written specification rather than a fixed card, with caviar and à-la-carte service available on request for a state or household movement. Every plate is filed against the standing order before it is loaded, so a repeat rotation is served to the same presentation each time it flies through OIFM.

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.

Business cabins

Business cabins at IFN run on multi-choice hot service built to a cabin specification, oven-ready in tray sets sized to the galley fitted to the aircraft. Crew meals and pilot meals are boxed separately to the roster, so cabin crew meals in Isfahan and crew meals in Iran travel on the same manifest without crossing the passenger load.

Diet.

Protocol & dietary

Protocol and dietary requirements at OIFM are documented per passenger rather than left to a standing menu: household, religious and medical sets, including halal and kosher, are produced against the full IATA special meal code list. Inflight catering in Isfahan is run on a separate production line for these sets, sealed before it joins the rest of the load.

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

Aircraft catering under HACCP control at IFN

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 Isfahan

Isfahan carries scheduled, charter, government and private traffic across two runways built to a wide-body reference code, which puts delegation work, peak-wave loading and repeat rotations through the same ramp in the same week. A delegation movement is chiefly a documentation problem, a peak wave is chiefly a capacity one, and a repeat rotation is chiefly about not varying the tray from one week to the next; airline catering at OIFM is planned around whichever of the three is on the schedule that day.

The uplift leaves our kitchen sealed and moves by hi-loader straight to the galley door, with our own crew on the ramp for the load and no handover at the foot of the aircraft. Inflight catering in Iran and in-flight catering at IFN run off the same ops desk, so a diversion or a late change is worked by the team that already holds the file rather than passed to a second one.

Aviation catering at Isfahan and airport catering at IFN are both held to one coordinator, one sealed cart and one signed handover per rotation, whatever the segment behind it.

Scheduled, charter and VVIP catering at Isfahan (IFN)

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Government and state flight catering at Isfahan
The 4397 metre runway at this field takes the aircraft type a state or delegation movement typically flies, which is what lets government flight catering at Isfahan run without adapting the loading plan to a shorter strip. A head of state movement is handled on a protocol file documented per passenger, security-cleared staff and an uplift sealed before it leaves the kitchen.
Government & state flights →
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at OIFM
A private airliner — BBJ, ACJ or wide-body VIP — is one of the movements the 4397 metre runway at this field is built to take, and that is what lets a royal flight catering rotation land here without a shortened loading sequence. Royal household standards are held to a written specification kept on file between movements, with halal and other dietary requirements produced on request for the royal or VVIP party travelling.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at IFN
Across the 4397 metre runway at this field, group movements, ACMI and wet-lease operators and special missions arrive on the same wide-body stands as a scheduled service. Charter flight catering at IFN and charter flight catering at OIFM both run a full three-cabin uplift counted against the loading sheet, staged in the order the galleys are laid out for a multi-leg rotation.
Wide-body charter →
A complete tray set on a black tray: a plated fish fillet with rice and vegetables, a seeded roll with herb butter and a berry dessert in a glass.
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Airline and ad hoc catering at Isfahan
Our crews load the wide-body reference code held at this field into a rotation plan that treats a scheduled service and an unplanned one the same way. Ad hoc airline catering at IFN covers outstation catering for carriers that do not base here, diversion catering and technical stop catering worked off the same duty roster, with crew meals at OIFM and crew meals at Isfahan boxed to the roster across a multi-leg rotation, AOG included.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at OIFM
A wide-body reference code at this field means a business jet movement is sequenced around larger loads rather than the other way round, and private jet catering at Isfahan is planned into that sequence rather than squeezed alongside it. FBO catering reaches the FBOs on the field and the GA terminal on the same cold chain and paperwork as business aviation catering and business jet catering for an airline uplift.
Private jets →

Charter flight catering trusted at Isfahan airport

Flight departments on jet catering at Isfahan (IFN)

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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

“Our sports movement through Isfahan (IFN/OIFM) required tour operator charter catering on a tight schedule. The order included different meal types and snacks, but the cabin crew could identify everything immediately. The crew was happy with the organization. Updates were timely and the final delivery matched the confirmation we had from operations.”

★★★★★

Scheduled airline

Tariq — Ground Services Manager

“We arranged repatriation flight catering at Isfahan (IFN/OIFM) for a non-routine passenger movement. 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. The order was complete on arrival and easy for us to check before closing the doors.”

★★★★★

Private jet operator

Dimitri — Cabin Service Coordinator

“We used the team at Isfahan (IFN/OIFM) for cargo crew meals on a night operation. Meals arrived on time and were packed practically for a working crew rather than over-presented. We would use them again for another cargo sector. The final handover was simple and there was nothing for the crew to correct before departure.”

★★★★★

Charter operator

Simon — Crew Operations Coordinator

Aircraft catering station data for Isfahan (OIFM / IFN)

DatumValue
Longest runway4,397 m
Runways2
Aerodrome reference codewide-body
ICAOOIFM

Business jet catering questions at Isfahan, Iran

Diversion catering and ramp questions at Isfahan, Iran

What operations gets asked every week about Isfahan.

Ask operations directly →
Can Isfahan Airport take an order with a short lead time, and how late can the specification still change?

Lead time depends on the cabin count and the mission, but a last-minute airline catering change is worked directly by the ops desk that holds the file rather than escalated, right up to a cut-off set for that rotation. Ask how far in advance to lock the specification for the load you are planning.

IFN — do you handle VIP, VVIP and government flights, and under what protocol?

The hi-loader carries VIP flight catering and government flight catering straight to galley height, with a protocol file documented per passenger and cleared staff assigned to the movement. Halal, household and other dietary sets are produced on request as part of that same file.

How much does airline catering cost at OIFM?

The standard held on every quotation is the same HACCP-cleared production and cold chain regardless of segment, and the airline catering cost itself depends on cabin count, specification and the loading window booked. The desk returns a quotation once those three are confirmed, since no price list is published.

Given the single ramp routing at this field, do you deliver private jet catering to the FBOs and the GA terminal in Isfahan?

There is coverage across every FBO on the field and the GA terminal, all run on the same cold chain and paperwork as an airline uplift. FBO catering here is planned into the same rotation schedule as the wide-body traffic rather than handled separately.

Do you produce halal, kosher and the IATA special meal codes at Isfahan Airport?

Yes, produced on a separate line and sealed before it joins the load, covering halal, kosher and the full set of special meal codes under SPML. Each tray is labelled per passenger and matched against the manifest before boarding.

Inflight catering at other airports near Isfahan

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Airline & VIP flight catering →
YES / OISY
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Charter flight catering quote for Isfahan

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Isfahan (IFN / OIFM)

Give us the aircraft and what goes on board. A coordinator comes back with a quote for Isfahan, not a brochure.

orders@aerogourmet.com · operations desk, 24/7

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.

Search by city, IATA or ICAO.
Local time at the airport of delivery.
Hi-loader required
Offloading

One question. Answer no and the step closes itself.

Offloading required
Order

What goes on board, and for how many. Attach a loading sheet if you hold one.

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Contact

One name, one desk. We reply to it and nowhere else.

Uplift at Isfahan (IFN)