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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — Al Habbaniyah, Iraq
Private jet catering, VIP flight catering and airline catering at Al Habbaniyah (ORAT / TQD)
TQD (IATA) · ORAT (ICAO)
AERO GOURMET provides inflight catering, hi-loader boarding and wide-body ramp access at Al Habbaniyah (ORAT), TQD, Iraq, for scheduled, charter, VIP, government and private jet flights, across two runways cleared to the wide-body reference code. In-flight catering here means one ops desk, sealed uplift and airside boarding straight to galley height.
4,019 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 — Al Habbaniyah
Inflight catering at wide-body scale for ORAT / TQD
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Aviation catering timeline, order to boarding, at Al Habbaniyah (TQD)
Flight catering sealed and logged to the stand at ORAT
The loading window at ORAT is a measured sequence, not a promise: from the sealed cart at our kitchen to the galley door on the wide-body stand at Al Habbaniyah. Ramp access is held on our own clearance rather than negotiated flight by flight, so the convoy moves as soon as the stand is called. Each leg of that sequence is logged, which is what lets a multi-leg rotation through TQD keep the same catering uplift discipline on every sector.
Between our kitchen and the stand at Al Habbaniyah sit screening, escort and apron traffic, and we plan the catering uplift against the worst of them rather than the average. The chain of custody runs unbroken from the moment the cart is sealed to the moment it is opened at the galley, with nobody outside that route touching the load. Temperatures are logged at sealing and again at handover, and the galley catering is closed out with a signature that ties the two readings together.
One coordinator carries the seal from our kitchen to the signature at the galley.
Crew meals and pilot meals for TQD departures
Cargo crew meals produced to the same standard at Al Habbaniyah airport
Airport catering for Al Habbaniyah runs from a facility built to keep hot production, pastry, a cold larder and a protocol line under one roof rather than split across sites. That structure is what lets a wide-body rotation and a head-of-state movement leave the same building on the same morning without either one waiting on the other. Every tray produced for airport catering at TQD is worked to a documented HACCP standard, logged from mixing bowl to sealed cart, with the cold chain held from that point through to the flight kitchen door.
The team behind government flight catering at Al Habbaniyah is the same named crew on every rotation, not a rotating pool pulled in for one departure. Security clearance is held on file for each of them, access to the ramp side of the kitchen is limited to that list, and training runs to royal household service standards as a matter of course rather than as an exception. That continuity is what a protocol desk is actually checking for when it asks who will be handling the load at ORAT.
VIP flight catering menus for ORAT / TQD departures
VVIP catering to a written specification at Al Habbaniyah (TQD)
From passenger meal boxes to VVIP menus, the airline catering menu at Al Habbaniyah is written to the cabin, the mission and the season rather than to a fixed template. Iraq's dairy, orchard fruit and river fish sit alongside cycles built for long-haul rotations and for a single VIP departure, adjusted through the year rather than repeated month on month. Inflight catering at TQD is closed out with documented allergen, halal, kosher and medical sets, each one labelled per passenger and per cabin before it is sealed. That labelling travels with the tray, not just with the paperwork, so a crew can match a passenger to a set without opening a second document mid-flight.
First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins at Al Habbaniyah are plated to a written specification rather than a set menu, with caviar and à-la-carte service available on request for a head-of-state or royal movement. VIP flight catering here is filed against the standing order for the operator, so the same presentation is repeated on the next rotation through ORAT without a fresh brief each time.
Business cabins
Business cabins at TQD run multi-choice hot service built to galley-ready tray sets, sized to the aircraft fitted on the stand rather than a generic format. Cabin crew meals and pilot meals travel in their own boxed sets against the roster, so crew meals at Al Habbaniyah are matched to duty pattern rather than to passenger count.
Protocol & dietary
Household, religious and medical requirements are documented per passenger for protocol and dietary work out of Al Habbaniyah, covering halal and kosher sets alongside the full range of IATA special meal codes. Inflight catering produced against these codes is run on a separate line at the kitchen and sealed before it leaves that line, keeping cross-contact away from the standard cabin production.
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 Al Habbaniyah airport
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 TQD
Al Habbaniyah operates two runways under the wide-body reference code, which puts scheduled, charter and government traffic on the same field as ad hoc VIP movements rather than on separate infrastructure. That mix turns a delegation into a documentation problem before it becomes a loading problem, and a peak departure wave into a capacity question our kitchen has to answer with sequencing rather than with extra stands.
The uplift reaches the aircraft by hi-loader, boarded to galley height on the wide-body stand rather than handed off at the foot of the aircraft, with our own escort covering the route from the kitchen across the apron. Airline catering at Al Habbaniyah and inflight catering on the same rotation both run off that single ramp route, so a diversion or a technical stop is worked the same way as a scheduled departure.
In-flight catering, aviation catering and airport catering at ORAT are held to one coordinator, sealed carts and a signed handover on every stand, whatever the mission on the tail.
Commercial aviation catering for every mission at Al Habbaniyah airport
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Government and state flight catering at TQD
The wide-body reference code at Al Habbaniyah clears the stands that a head of state aircraft actually needs, which is what makes state visits and official delegations workable on this field rather than routed elsewhere. Protocol is documented per passenger, security-cleared staff handle the load, and the uplift for TQD catering is sealed before it leaves the kitchen, with government flight catering held to that same file on every movement.
Government & state flights →
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at Al Habbaniyah
Stands cleared to the wide-body reference code at ORAT catering take private airliners in the BBJ, ACJ and wide-body VIP class without a change of infrastructure between one movement and the next. Royal flight catering here runs to a written household specification kept on file between rotations, with royal household dietary sets and halal requirements produced against that same file on request for every VVIP departure.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at ORAT
Two runways and stands cleared to the wide-body reference code let Al Habbaniyah take a full three-cabin charter aircraft on the same footprint as a scheduled wide-body, which matters for a group movement that books the field on short notice. Charter flight catering here covers ACMI and wet-lease operators, multi-leg tours and special missions, with charter flight catering in Al Habbaniyah counted stand-side against the loading sheet before boarding begins.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at TQD
Two runways cleared to the wide-body reference code put scheduled and ad hoc traffic through Al Habbaniyah on the same apron infrastructure, which is what lets ad hoc airline catering run without a dedicated stand being built for it. Outstation catering, diversion catering and technical stop catering at TQD move off one duty roster, AOG included, with tray sets sized to the galley across a multi-leg rotation and crew meals boarded on the same sealed cart.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at Al Habbaniyah
The same wide-body-cleared apron that takes a charter aircraft at TQD also carries the GA traffic using the FBOs on the field, so private jet catering here is boarded through the same ramp route rather than a separate one. Business aviation catering and FBO catering at ORAT run on the same cold chain and the same sealed paperwork as an airline uplift, delivered to the GA terminal on request.
Private jets →
Aviation catering reviews from operators at Al Habbaniyah
Operators on commercial aviation catering at Al Habbaniyah, Iraq
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
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Scheduled airline
“We needed an airline ops catering supplier at Al Habbaniyah (TQD/ORAT) and the support was excellent. The response time was good and we did not have to manage several local suppliers ourselves. We would use the service again without hesitation. Updates were timely and the final delivery matched the confirmation we had from operations.”
★★★★☆Scheduled airline
Rami — Airport Operations Lead
“I arranged airline catering in Al Habbaniyah for our departure from TQD/ORAT. Communication was responsive and the team handled a late timing change without any issue. We had a smooth experience from order to delivery. Responses were quick whenever we had a question, which helped us keep the flight on schedule.”
★★★★★Private jet operator
John — VIP Operations Controller
“Our passenger profile required SPML at Al Habbaniyah (TQD/ORAT), with several different dietary restrictions. Each item was clearly identified, separated from the standard meals, and easy to check before boarding. We were happy with the accuracy of the order. From an operational point of view, the service was easy to manage and required very little follow-up.”
★★★★★Charter operator
Ryan — Duty Operations Manager
Al Habbaniyah (ORAT / TQD): airport catering data
| Datum | Value |
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| Longest runway | 4,019 m |
| Runways | 2 |
| Aerodrome reference code | wide-body |
| ICAO | ORAT |
Aircraft catering questions at ORAT
Diversion catering and ramp questions at ORAT / TQD
What operations gets asked every week about Al Habbaniyah.
Ask operations directly →Where does the airline catering cost at Al Habbaniyah come from, since no price list is published?
The figure comes from the specification file for the rotation — cabin count, menu complexity and the loading window booked — and our desk returns a quotation built from that record rather than a flat rate.
At what point does an order need to be placed with Al Habbaniyah, and how late can the specification change?
The sequence starts with the cabin count and mission type going to our kitchen so production can be scheduled; lead time for a standard rotation is set at booking, and last minute airline catering changes are taken up to the cut-off our desk confirms for that stand.
Does TQD take private jet catering to the FBOs and the GA terminal on the field?
Every aircraft on the field, airline or private, is reached from the same kitchen: FBO catering is delivered to the GA terminal on the same cold chain and the same sealed paperwork as a wide-body uplift.
Are VIP, VVIP and government flights catered at ORAT, and under what protocol?
The coordinator assigned to a rotation carries the protocol file from booking through to handover, with security-cleared staff handling VIP flight catering and government flight catering to the same documented standard on every movement.
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