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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — Medina, Saudi Arabia
Airline catering, VIP & private jet catering at Medina (OEMA / MED)
MED (IATA) · OEMA (ICAO)
A 4335 m runway at Medina clears the wide-body movements this station is built around, and every one of them boards from the same reference-code stands. In-flight catering at OEMA and inflight catering in Medina run off one ops desk, with hi-loader boarding to galley height on ramp access held for the uplift, not the kerb.
4,335 m
Longest runway
Wide-body
Largest aircraft handled
2
Runways
2
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 — Medina
Aviation catering with ramp access at Medina airport
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Inflight catering order window at Medina (MED)
Aviation catering from sealed cart to galley door at OEMA
The loading window at Medina is not a promise, it is a measured sequence: sealed carts leave our kitchen, clear the apron and reach the galley door on a schedule fixed against the stand. Ramp access is held on our own clearance rather than requested on the day, so the convoy moves without waiting on a borrowed pass. That single sequence is what a catering uplift at this station is measured against, rotation after rotation.
Between our kitchen and the wide-body stands at MED sit screening, escort and apron traffic, and none of them are left to chance: the route is planned against the worst of the three, not the average of them. A catering uplift bound for Medina is sealed before the convoy moves, and the seal is checked again the moment the cart reaches the galley, so the chain of custody has two fixed points rather than one assumption in between. Temperatures are logged at both ends and the handover is signed, which is what turns galley catering at MED from a delivery into a recorded transfer that either side can point to afterwards.
The convoy is the risk we plan against, not the food we load.
Airline catering companies' production standard at Medina, Saudi Arabia
Airline food supplier crews cleared for Medina airport
Airport catering at MED is provisioned from a single flight kitchen built around hot production, pastry, a cold larder and a protocol cell under one roof, rather than split across separate units for each cabin. That layout is what lets a wide-body rotation move First, Business and main cabin tray sets out on one schedule instead of three staggered ones. Every line inside runs to HACCP, which is the standard airport catering in Medina is built on rather than an add-on to it.
The team behind government flight catering at Medina is the same named crew on every rotation, not a rotating pool assigned on the day. Each member carries security clearance on file, sits on the access list for the apron and is trained to the household standards a protocol movement requires, from the paperwork that travels with a sealed uplift to the signature that closes it. That continuity is what lets a royal or state booking here be handled without a briefing each time it recurs.
VIP flight catering and dietary sets at OEMA / MED
Royal flight catering standards per cabin at Medina (MED)
AERO GOURMET writes menus at Medina to the cabin, the mission and the season rather than to a single fixed list, and inflight catering at Medina moves from passenger meal boxes through to VVIP tray sets on that same basis. Local sourcing draws on Saudi Arabia's dairy, orchard fruit and regional produce where the mission calls for it, worked into the specification rather than named as a dish. Special meals are produced on a documented basis: halal, kosher, vegan and medical sets are labelled per passenger and per cabin before they leave the kitchen. Seasonal changes move the cycle; the tray standard and the labelling do not.
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First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins at OEMA are plated to a written specification rather than a fixed menu card, with caviar and à-la-carte service available on request for a protocol or private movement. VIP flight catering here is filed against the standing order, so the presentation repeats exactly on the next rotation.
Business cabins
Business cabins at Medina take multi-choice hot service built to cabin specification, boxed into oven-ready formats sized to the galley fitted to the aircraft. Crew meals at MED and crew meals at Medina move on the same schedule as the cabin, with cabin crew meals and pilot meals boxed separately to the roster.
Protocol & dietary
Protocol and dietary requirements at OEMA are documented per passenger rather than handled as a general note, covering household, religious and medical requirements alongside halal and kosher sets. The full range of IATA special meal codes is produced on a separate line and sealed before departure, which is how inflight catering in Saudi Arabia keeps a protocol movement and a standard booking on the same standard.
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 compliance at Medina
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 MED
Medina handles scheduled, charter and government traffic across two runways feeding wide-body stands under one reference code, and that mix turns a delegation movement into a documentation task and a peak wave into a capacity one rather than either being routine. Aircraft provisioning here moves on the airside delivery, not on a kerbside handoff: sealed carts clear the apron under our own escort and reach the stand under ramp access held on our own badges, with loading crews staged against the sheet rather than the clock.
Airline catering, inflight catering, in-flight catering and aviation catering at MED run off one ops desk, and airport catering in Medina is planned stand by stand rather than terminal by terminal. Aviation catering at OEMA and inflight catering at OEMA follow the same route from kitchen to galley door regardless of which segment is booked.
On every one of those movements we commit to a single coordinator, sealed carts and a signed handover at the stand.
VVIP catering and commercial flights at Medina airport
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Government and state flight catering at MED
On the wide-body stands at Medina, protocol movements are worked to the same reference-code sequencing as any scheduled rotation, which is what lets a head of state aircraft board without a separate procedure. Government flight catering at Medina documents the protocol file per passenger, with security-cleared staff and the uplift sealed at OEMA before it leaves the kitchen.
Government & state flights →
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at Medina
Loading a household movement here has to work around the same wide-body reference code that governs every other stand assignment, which is why the sequence is fixed before the aircraft is confirmed. Royal flight catering at Medina covers private airliners, BBJ, ACJ and wide-body VIP alike, held to a written household specification kept on file between movements, with halal and household dietary requirements produced on request.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at OEMA
4335 metres of runway at Medina clears the wide-body charter and ACMI movements this ramp is built to take, group by group, without a length restriction narrowing the booking. Charter flight catering at Medina for wet-lease operators, tour operator movements and repatriation or humanitarian missions runs a full three-cabin uplift counted against the loading sheet, with charter flight catering staged in the order the galleys are laid out.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at MED
The wide-body reference code held at Medina lets carriers running this station as an outstation take a full three-cabin uplift on short notice rather than a scaled-down one. Ad hoc airline catering in Medina, outstation catering at OEMA, diversion catering at MED and technical stop catering are staged off one duty roster, AOG included, across a multi-leg rotation, with crew meals in Medina and crew meals in Saudi Arabia boxed to the same sheet.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at Medina
Our kitchen runs the same 4335 m-cleared wide-body rotation out to the GA terminal and the FBOs on the field at Medina, on the identical cold chain and paperwork as an airline uplift. Private jet catering at Medina, FBO catering and business aviation catering move as one branch, so a business jet catering booking never waits behind a wide-body one.
Private jets →
FBOs at Medina
jet aviation medina
saudia private aviation (spa)
Charter flight catering trusted at Medina (MED)
Flight departments on jet catering at Medina, Saudi Arabia
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
Scheduled airline
“We had a last-minute schedule change into Medina (MED/OEMA) and needed technical stop catering. Even with the late change, the meals were packed correctly and delivered within the revised window. Good support when timing is the main pressure point. From an operational point of view, the service was easy to manage and required very little follow-up.”
★★★★★Charter operator
Damian — Crew Operations Coordinator
“We needed airline catering at small airports for a flight through Medina (MED/OEMA) and the process was much easier than expected. It felt like working with a regular station supplier even though this was not one of our usual airports. We would be comfortable using the service there again.”
★★★★★Charter operator
Ella — Freighter Operations Manager
“For our flight at Medina (MED/OEMA), we needed a quick airline catering quote before confirming the order. The inclusions were easy to understand, lead time was realistic, and there were no surprises when the final order was confirmed. The clear communication made the booking easy. Updates were timely and the final delivery matched the confirmation we had from operations.”
★★★★★Scheduled airline
Amelia — Airport Services Coordinator
Medina (OEMA / MED): airport catering data
| Datum | Value |
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| Longest runway | 4,335 m |
| Runways | 2 |
| Aerodrome reference code | wide-body |
| ICAO | OEMA |
Business jet catering questions at OEMA / MED
Diversion catering and ramp questions at OEMA / MED
What operations gets asked every week about Medina.
Ask operations directly →How does airline catering reach the aircraft airside at MED?
Airside delivery runs sealed carts from our kitchen straight to the stand, where hi-loader boarding lifts the uplift to galley height rather than leaving it at the foot of the aircraft.
Where are halal, kosher and special meal codes documented at OEMA?
Every halal and kosher tray is logged against the passenger manifest, with the full set of IATA SPML special meals codes produced on a separate line and sealed before it leaves the kitchen.
Which protocol governs VIP flight catering and government flight catering in Medina?
A sealed cart and a named coordinator carry the load from kitchen to stand under one written protocol, whether the movement is a royal household rotation or a state delegation.
What does airline catering cost at Medina Airport?
We quote against the cabin count, the specification and the loading window rather than a published rate, and the desk returns a figure once those three are confirmed.
Commercial aviation catering near Medina
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Airline & VIP flight catering →
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Airline & VIP flight catering →
RSI / OERS
Hanak
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Airline & VIP flight catering →
Charter flight catering quote for MED
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Medina (MED / OEMA)
Give us the aircraft and what goes on board. A coordinator comes back with a quote for Medina, 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
Uplift at Medina (MED)