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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — Kish Island, Iran
Wide-body airline catering, VIP flight catering and private jet catering at Kish Island (OIBK / KIH)
KIH (IATA) · OIBK (ICAO)
A 3659 m runway at Kish Island clears wide-body movements onto a single stand set built for scheduled, charter, VIP, government and private jet flights. Inflight catering here runs from a sealed cart to the galley door by hi-loader, with in-flight catering staged airside on one ops desk and inflight catering at OIBK held to the same standard across every rotation, day and night, across Iran.
3,659 m
Longest runway
Wide-body
Largest aircraft handled
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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 — Kish Island
Inflight catering with hi-loader boarding at Kish Island (KIH)
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Airport catering order window at Kish Island (KIH)
Aviation catering from sealed cart to galley door at OIBK
Ramp access at Kish Island is what a sealed cart actually needs, not a promise printed on an order form: the route from our kitchen to the wide-body stand is fixed, escorted and timed the same way on every rotation. A catering uplift is staged to the galley order before the hi-loader ever reaches the aircraft, so the crew opens carts in the sequence they were packed. Nothing about that sequence changes between a scheduled service and a government movement.
Between our kitchen and the OIBK stand sit screening, an escort through airside and the ordinary traffic of the apron, and we plan the catering uplift against the worst version of all three rather than the average one. That is where a rotation is actually lost or held, not in the galley catering itself, so the convoy is scheduled with slack built into the ramp leg and not into the kitchen leg.
Temperature is logged when the cart is sealed at the kitchen and again at the handover, and a signature closes the load at the aircraft, giving one documented chain of custody from seal to stand for every KIH rotation.
One responsibility runs from the seal at the kitchen to the signature at the aircraft.
Crew meals and pilot meals for Kish Island, Iran departures
Cargo crew meals produced to the same standard at Kish Island airport
Airport catering at Kish Island runs from one flight kitchen holding hot production, pastry, a cold larder and a protocol cell under a single roof, rather than from separate units assembled per order. That structure is what lets airport catering in Kish Island move a scheduled tray run and a government specification off the same floor without either queuing behind the other. Production at OIBK is run to HACCP standard, with the cold chain held from the kitchen door to the wide-body stand it feeds.
The people who move government flight catering through this kitchen are the same named team on every rotation, not a rota drawn fresh each time: security clearance on file, listed on the access list, and trained to the household standards a royal or state movement expects. That team carries the paperwork that travels with a sealed uplift as far as the aircraft, and hands it over against a signature rather than leaving it at the ramp gate.
Halal airline meals and special meals at OIBK / KIH
VIP flight catering, specified per passenger at Kish Island (KIH)
From passenger meal boxes to VVIP menus, inflight catering at OIBK is written to the cabin, the mission and the season rather than to a fixed printed list. Menus draw where the facts allow on produce from Iran, kept general — orchard fruit, dairy, regional fish — and never pinned to a named dish or a single supplier. Special requirements are documented per passenger and per cabin: allergen sets, halal, kosher and the medical codes a protocol desk asks for by name. A charter flight menu and a VIP flight menu are built from the same kitchen, on the same cold chain, with nothing substituted after the specification is signed off.
First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins at Kish Island receive VIP flight catering plated to a written specification rather than a fixed printed card, with caviar service and à-la-carte options available on request. Presentation is filed against the standing order, so a repeat rotation is served the same way it was signed off the first time.
Business cabins
Business cabins at OIBK take multi-choice hot service built to cabin specification, in oven-ready formats sized to the galley fitted to the aircraft. Crew meals at Kish Island travel in the same tray sets, with cabin crew meals and pilot meals boxed separately against the roster.
Protocol & dietary
Protocol and dietary requirements at KIH are documented per passenger, covering halal and kosher sets alongside the full range of IATA special meal codes. Inflight catering at Kish Island produces these on a separate line and seals them before they leave it, matched against the manifest rather than assembled on the ramp.
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
HACCP standards for aviation catering at KIH
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.
Aircraft catering delivered airside at KIH
Kish Island carries scheduled, charter, VIP and government movements across a single wide-body-rated runway, which turns every rotation into a stand-scheduling exercise rather than a menu exercise: a delegation brings a documentation load, a peak wave brings a capacity load, and a repeat charter brings a repetition load the kitchen plans against in advance.
Airline catering in Kish Island moves from our kitchen to the ramp by hi-loader, boarded directly onto the aircraft rather than staged at its foot, with our own crew on the apron for the full loading window. In-flight catering in Kish Island and aviation catering at KIH run off the one ops desk that also carries government and charter files, so a diversion or a late change is worked by the team that already knows the stand.
Airport catering in Iran is planned stand by stand at this field, with ramp access held on our own badges and inflight catering at KIH committed through one coordinator, sealed carts and a signed handover on every rotation.
Royal flight catering and scheduled uplifts at Kish Island airport
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Government and state flight catering at OIBK
On the single wide-body stand at Kish Island, a head of state aircraft is worked to the same protocol file as any other government movement: documented per passenger, handled by security-cleared staff, sealed before it leaves the kitchen. Government flight catering here carries that chain of custody through to a signed handover at the aircraft door.
Government & state flights →
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at KIH
Loading a private airliner on the one wide-body stand at Kish Island means sequencing a household specification around the same ramp used by scheduled and charter traffic, never the reverse. Royal flight catering here covers BBJ, ACJ and wide-body VIP movements, held to a written household standard kept on file between rotations, with halal and household dietary requirements produced on request.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at Kish Island
The runway at Kish Island runs to 3659 metres, long enough to hold ACMI and wet-lease wide-body movements on the same wide-body stand as scheduled traffic. Charter flight catering here covers group movements and special missions with a full three-cabin uplift, and charter flight catering at KIH is counted against the loading sheet and staged in galley order before boarding.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at OIBK
A wide-body reference code at Kish Island keeps this field open to the same aircraft class flown by carriers who route it as an outstation, and that is where ad hoc airline catering starts, not at the terminal desk. Outstation catering, diversion catering and technical stop catering run off one duty roster here, with crew meals boxed to the roster and ad hoc airline catering in Iran covering AOG across a multi-leg rotation.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at KIH
Our kitchen works the same 3659 metre runway at Kish Island to reach the GA terminal and the FBOs on the field, not only the wide-body stand. Private jet catering in Iran is delivered there as FBO catering, business aviation catering and business jet catering on the identical cold chain and paperwork as an airline uplift.
Private jets →
Charter flight catering reviewed at Kish Island, Iran
Protocol teams on VVIP catering at Kish Island, Iran
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
Scheduled airline
“Our sports movement through Kish Island (KIH/OIBK) required tour operator charter catering on a tight schedule. They handled the nutrition requests well and kept everything organized for fast distribution onboard. A good partner for sports charter operations. Responses were quick whenever we had a question, which helped us keep the flight on schedule.”
★★★★★Private jet operator
Robert — Passenger Services Manager
“Our flight through Kish Island (KIH/OIBK) required repatriation flight catering with limited preparation time. Communication with operations was efficient and the order was adapted quickly when our timings moved. We appreciated the flexibility. The final handover was simple and there was nothing for the crew to correct before departure.”
★★★★★Government flight department
Martin — Diplomatic Flight Manager
“We ordered cargo airline catering for a cargo rotation through Kish Island (KIH/OIBK). They respected the unusual timing and kept communication direct with our ops team. We would use them again for another cargo sector. The order was complete on arrival and easy for us to check before closing the doors.”
★★★★★Charter operator
Hana — Crew Operations Coordinator
Outstation catering data for Kish Island (OIBK / KIH)
| Datum | Value |
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| Longest runway | 3,659 m |
| Runways | 1 |
| Aerodrome reference code | wide-body |
| ICAO | OIBK |
Business jet catering questions at OIBK / KIH
Technical stop catering questions at OIBK / KIH
What operations gets asked every week about Kish Island.
Ask operations directly →Does OIBK take airline catering delivered airside, straight to the aircraft?
Every rotation at OIBK is boarded by hi-loader rather than dropped at the foot of the aircraft, with airside delivery run on our own badges from kitchen to galley door.
Kish Island, do you produce halal, kosher and the IATA special meal codes?
The sealed cart that reaches the stand carries halal and kosher sets and the full range of SPML codes, each one documented per passenger before it leaves the kitchen.
At which point does Kish Island Airport apply VIP and government protocol to an uplift?
The protocol file is opened before the cart is packed, so VIP flight catering and government flight catering at this station both move under the same documented chain from the first seal onward.
How far does private jet catering at KIH reach across the field?
Security clearance on our crews covers the whole ramp, so FBO catering and private jet catering are delivered to the GA terminal and every FBO on the field, not only the main apron.
Whose figures set the cost of airline catering at OIBK?
For every quotation, cabin count, specification and loading window set the airline catering cost, and the desk returns a figure once those three are confirmed rather than publishing a fixed list.
Kish Island, how far in advance does an order need to be placed?
There is a standing lead time for a full specification change, but a last minute airline catering request is still worked against the loading window already held for the rotation.
Outstation catering near Kish Island
LVP / OIBV
Lavan
Iran · 70 km from Kish Island
Airline & VIP flight catering →
BDH / OIBL
Bandar Lengeh
Iran · 84 km from Kish Island
Airline & VIP flight catering →
SXI / OIBS
Siri
Iran · 88 km from Kish Island
Airline & VIP flight catering →
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Uplift at Kish Island (KIH)