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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — Sharma, Saudi Arabia
Airline catering, VIP flight catering and private jet catering at Sharma (OENN / NUM)
NUM (IATA) · OENN (ICAO)
Sharma carries the wide-body reference code, and our crews stage a full multi-class uplift against that classification, from a sealed kitchen output to the galley door on every rotation. In-flight catering here runs through one ops desk, with inflight catering boarded by hi-loader to galley height and inflight catering documentation cleared before the convoy moves airside.
3,757 m
Longest runway
Wide-body
Largest aircraft handled
1
Runways
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 — Sharma
Wide-body aviation catering at OENN / NUM
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Aviation catering timeline, order to boarding, at Sharma, Saudi Arabia
Aircraft catering handover at the galley door, Sharma airport
Sharma's uplift is not measured against an estimate, it is measured against the sealed cart itself, from the moment it leaves our kitchen to the moment it clears the galley door. Ramp access, not a delivery bay, is what our crews hold at this station, and every catering uplift moves under one escorted convoy from seal to signature. The airport name and the two codes change the route, never the method: the same cold chain and the same paperwork travel with the load at OENN as at any other wide-body stand we work.
Between our kitchen and the stand at Sharma sit screening, escort and apron traffic, and it is the convoy, not the galley catering itself, that carries the timing risk on this rotation. We plan the catering uplift against the worst case those three present, holding the sealed cart to a fixed route rather than a fixed clock, so a delay in one does not become a delay in the other.
Temperature is logged twice: once when the cart is sealed at the kitchen, and again at handover on the stand, with both readings kept against the same reference. The signature that closes the load ties the two readings to one named responsibility, from the seal at OENN to the last checkpoint before boarding.
One seal, one signature, one route from our kitchen to the galley door.
Airline food supplier for OENN / NUM rotations
Pilot meals and cleared production crews for Sharma (NUM)
Airport catering at NUM is provisioned from a kitchen built to run hot production, pastry, a cold larder and a protocol cell under one roof, all governed to HACCP and released against the same cold chain record for every cart. Airport catering in Saudi Arabia is planned around the wide-body reference code this station holds, so tray sets and full three-cabin loads are built to the same specification whether the rotation is scheduled, charter or government. The flight kitchen at NUM releases nothing that has not cleared its own seal check first.
The team that handles government flight catering at this station is the same named crew on every rotation, carrying security clearance on file and standing on the access list before a cart is ever loaded. They work to household service standards on royal and state movements, and to the same chain of custody on a scheduled uplift, with no separate procedure kept for either. Paperwork travels with the cart from seal to handover, checked at both ends against the same named signature.
VIP flight catering and dietary sets at Sharma
Royal flight catering standards per cabin at Sharma, Saudi Arabia
Menus for Sharma are written to the cabin and the mission rather than to a fixed cycle, drawing on the produce of Saudi Arabia's coast and orchard country for fish, dairy and fruit sets rotated through the season. Inflight catering here spans First, Business and main cabin service, with a VIP flight menu built separately from the charter flight menu that a wet-lease or group movement runs on. Every dietary and religious set is documented per passenger and per cabin, covering halal, kosher, allergen and medical requirements before the cart is sealed. Nothing leaves the kitchen against a general order: each tray set is labelled to the passenger it was built for.
First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins at OENN are plated to a written specification rather than a fixed cycle, with VIP flight catering covering caviar and à-la-carte service on request. Each course is filed against the standing order for that cabin, so a repeat rotation is served to the same specification it was on the last one.
Business cabins
Business cabins at NUM run a multi-choice hot service built to oven-ready formats sized to the galley fitted to the aircraft, moving as tray sets and meal boxes rather than a fixed plate count. Crew meals in Sharma travel on the same load, with cabin crew meals and pilot meals boxed separately from the passenger sets and matched to the roster.
Protocol & dietary
Protocol and dietary requirements at Sharma are documented per passenger, covering household, religious and medical sets alongside halal and kosher production and the full range of IATA special meal codes. Inflight catering at NUM produces every SPML set on a separate line, sealed before it leaves that line and matched to the passenger record it was built against.
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 and sealed transfer for aircraft catering at Sharma 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 OENN
Sharma's single runway is classified to the wide-body reference code, which sets the terms for every uplift here: a scheduled service, a diversion and a government movement are all planned against that same classification rather than against a terminal size or a fixed slot pattern. A diversion is a documentation problem before it is a loading problem, and a peak wave across the field's wide-body stands is a capacity problem our kitchen plans against rather than absorbs on the day.
The uplift reaches the aircraft by hi-loader to galley height, staged from our kitchen and escorted across the apron on a fixed route rather than a fixed clock; ramp access is held on our own badges rather than a delivery pass to the perimeter. Airline catering in Sharma and airport catering at OENN are worked from the same ops desk, with inflight catering at OENN, in-flight catering at NUM and aviation catering in Saudi Arabia all running under one coordinator regardless of the segment behind the booking.
One coordinator, sealed carts and a signed handover close every rotation here, whatever the traffic mix on the day.
Scheduled, charter and VVIP catering at OENN / NUM
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Government and state flight catering at OENN
A head of state aircraft boards here under the same wide-body classification that governs every other movement, which is what lets protocol work be planned rather than improvised. Government flight catering at Sharma covers state visits and official delegations, with the file documented per passenger, security-cleared staff on the access list, and the uplift sealed before it leaves the kitchen.
Government & state flights →
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at NUM
On a runway long enough to take private airliners under the wide-body reference code, royal and VVIP flight catering at OENN is built for BBJ, ACJ and comparable wide-body VIP movements rather than for a single cabin type. Royal flight catering here holds to a written household specification kept on file between movements, with halal and household dietary requirements produced against the same record on request.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at Sharma
A full three-cabin load has to be sequenced against a single classified runway here, which is the constraint that shapes every charter rotation booked at Sharma. Charter flight catering at OENN serves ACMI and wet-lease operators, group movements and special missions, with charter flight catering counted against the loading sheet and staged in the order the galleys are laid out.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at OENN
Sharma's single wide-body-classified runway takes a scheduled service and an unplanned rotation to the same standard, which is what makes ad hoc airline catering here a matter of sequencing rather than exception. Outstation catering, diversion catering and technical stop catering run off one duty roster at NUM, AOG included, with crew meals in Saudi Arabia and crew meals at NUM boxed to the same roster across a multi-leg rotation.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at NUM
3757 metres of runway lets business aviation share the same wide-body-classified field as the scheduled and charter traffic here, rather than a separate strip. Private jet catering in Sharma reaches the FBOs on the field and the GA terminal through our dedicated branch, with business aviation catering, business jet catering and FBO catering held to the same cold chain and the same paperwork as an airline uplift.
Private jets →
Charter flight catering reviewed at Sharma, Saudi Arabia
Operators on commercial aviation catering at OENN / NUM
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
Scheduled airline
“For a last-minute requirement at Sharma (NUM/OENN), we contacted them as our airline ops catering supplier. They understood airline operations and kept communication short, clear, and useful. Very convenient for operational coverage. The order was complete on arrival and easy for us to check before closing the doors. Responses were quick whenever we had a question, which helped us keep the flight on schedule.”
★★★★★Government flight department
Noor — Air Transport Operations Officer
“Our team needed airline catering in Sharma for a short-notice flight at NUM/OENN. Everything arrived fresh, well presented, and easy for the cabin crew to organize before boarding. I would use them again for another flight from Sharma. Updates were timely and the final delivery matched the confirmation we had from operations.”
★★★★☆Charter operator
Alex — Crew Operations Coordinator
“I requested special meals for passengers departing Sharma (NUM/OENN) and the labeling was excellent. All requirements were followed and the cabin crew could see immediately which meal belonged to which passenger. 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
Victor — Cargo Dispatch Coordinator
Station data for airport catering at Sharma (OENN / NUM)
| Datum | Value |
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| Longest runway | 3,757 m |
| Runways | 1 |
| Aerodrome reference code | wide-body |
| ICAO | OENN |
Business jet catering questions at Sharma
Crew meals, lead times and access at Sharma
What operations gets asked every week about Sharma.
Ask operations directly →Are halal, kosher and the special meal codes produced at Sharma?
Our production line runs halal, kosher and the full set of IATA SPML codes as standard, with every special meal documented per passenger before the cart is sealed.
When are VIP, VVIP and government flights catered at Sharma Airport?
When a movement is flagged as government, royal or VVIP, VIP flight catering and government flight catering here move to a protocol file documented per passenger, with security-cleared staff on the access list throughout.
Does NUM require a fixed lead time for an airline catering order?
Every rotation carries its own lead time depending on cabin count and specification, and how far in advance an order needs to be placed is confirmed against the loading window rather than a fixed cut-off; a specification can still be revised close to departure through the same desk.
Which factors set airline catering cost at OENN?
The loader, the cart configuration and the route from kitchen to galley door are what a quotation is built on, since cabin count, specification and loading window all move the figure and we publish no fixed price list.
What does airline catering delivery look like at Sharma?
We deliver airside by hi-loader to galley height rather than to the foot of the aircraft, with the sealed cart escorted across the apron on a fixed route to the stand.
Where is private jet catering delivered at Sharma Airport?
The handover record for every load names the FBOs on the field and the GA terminal alike, with FBO catering delivered on the same cold chain and paperwork as an airline uplift.
Outstation catering near Sharma
TUU / OETB
Tabuk
Saudi Arabia · 140 km from Sharma
Airline & VIP flight catering →
AQJ / OJAQ
Aqaba
Jordan · 190 km from Sharma
Airline & VIP flight catering →
ETM / LLER
Eilat
Israel · 202 km from Sharma
Airline & VIP flight catering →
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