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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — Sharurah, Saudi Arabia
Airline catering, VIP and private jet catering at Sharurah (OESH / SHW)
SHW (IATA) · OESH (ICAO)
One wide-body reference code and a 3650-metre runway set the loading plan at Sharurah: a single aircraft is worked at a time, so sequencing from kitchen to galley door is fixed before wheels touch the stand. AERO GOURMET runs inflight catering and aviation catering here on that sequence, with in-flight catering boarded by hi-loader straight to galley height rather than staged at the foot of the aircraft.
3,650 m
Longest runway
Wide-body
Largest aircraft handled
1
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 — Sharurah
Inflight catering with hi-loader boarding at Sharurah
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Inflight catering order window at SHW
Aircraft catering handover at the galley door, Sharurah airport
A single wide-body stand at Sharurah means one loading plan runs at a time, sequenced from our kitchen to the aircraft with nothing queued behind it. Ramp access is held on our own clearance, so the catering uplift moves airside without a handover at a perimeter gate. That single sequence is what lets the sealed cart reach the galley door on schedule, rotation after rotation.
Between our kitchen and the stand at Sharurah, screening, escort and apron traffic sit ahead of the cart, and the loading plan is built against the worst of them rather than the average. One escort covers the convoy from seal to stand, keeping the chain of custody with a single name from departure to handover. Every catering uplift is logged at both ends: temperature at sealing, temperature again at the galley, and a signature closing the load once the galley catering is confirmed aboard.
The convoy is the risk we plan for, not the food on the cart.
Airline food supplier for OESH / SHW rotations
Crew meals and passenger sets from one kitchen at Sharurah (SHW)
The flight kitchen at SHW runs hot production, pastry, a cold larder and a protocol line under one roof, built to serve the single wide-body stand this field holds. Airport catering at Sharurah is planned around that one-stand constraint rather than around a bank of gates, so the kitchen sequences one full uplift at a time instead of splitting output across simultaneous loads. The same production line carries HACCP procedure end to end, from the cold larder through to the sealed cart that leaves for airport catering at OESH.
The team assigned to government flight catering at Sharurah is the same named crew on every rotation, not a rotating roster drawn from general production. Each member carries security clearance on file, sits on the access list for the stand, and is trained to the household standards a protocol movement requires. Every sealed uplift they build travels with the paperwork that names who packed it, who sealed it and who signed it over.
VIP flight catering menus for Sharurah departures
VVIP catering to a written specification at Sharurah, Saudi Arabia
Menus for Sharurah are written to the cabin, the mission and the season rather than to a fixed print run, so a charter rotation and a scheduled sector do not share the same plate. Inflight catering here draws on the country's dairy, orchard fruit and fish where the season allows, built into a specification rather than a fixed dish list. VIP flight menus and charter flight menus sit on the same production line as the main-deck tray sets, differing in service format rather than in the kitchen that builds them. Every set closes on a documented allergen, halal, kosher or medical requirement, labelled per passenger and per cabin before it is sealed.
First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins at Sharurah take VIP flight catering plated to a written specification held on file between movements, with caviar and à-la-carte service available on request rather than fixed to a set menu. The presentation is checked against that standing order before the tray leaves the kitchen, not improvised at the galley.
Business cabins
Business cabins at OESH run multi-choice hot service built to cabin specification, in oven-ready formats sized to the galley fitted on the aircraft type. Crew meals and pilot meals are boxed separately to the roster, with cabin crew meals labelled apart from the passenger tray sets they travel alongside.
Protocol & dietary
Protocol and dietary requirements at Sharurah are documented per passenger before the cart is sealed, covering household, religious and medical requests on the same specification as the rest of the cabin. Halal and kosher sets are produced on a separate line, alongside the full range of IATA special meal codes, and inflight catering in Sharurah carries that documentation through to handover.
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 SHW
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 OESH
Sharurah is worked as a single-stand field, so scheduled, charter and government traffic share one wide-body reference code rather than a bank of parallel gates, and each arrival is planned as its own uplift rather than folded into a wave. A delegation movement is a documentation problem here before it is a volume one, and a repeat charter rotation is a repetition problem: the same specification has to hold across every leg without drifting.
The uplift reaches the aircraft by hi-loader, boarded directly to galley height rather than staged at the foot of the aircraft, with our own crew handling the ramp leg from the kitchen gate to the stand. Airside delivery runs on our own clearance rather than a handover at a perimeter fence, which keeps inflight catering, in-flight catering and aviation catering under one continuous chain of custody from seal to signature.
On this single-stand field, our commitment is one coordinator per rotation, sealed carts logged at both ends, and a signed handover before the aircraft closes its doors, which is what airline catering and airport catering in Saudi Arabia are measured against.
Commercial aviation catering for every mission at Sharurah
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Government and state flight catering at Sharurah
The 3650-metre runway at Sharurah takes the aircraft types a head of state movement typically flies, which is what a protocol desk checks before anything else. Government flight catering here runs on a documented file per passenger, security-cleared staff on the access list, and the uplift sealed inside the kitchen before it moves to the stand.
Government & state flights →
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at OESH
The 3650-metre runway at Sharurah accommodates the private airliners a royal household movement typically operates, BBJ, ACJ and wide-body VIP configurations among them. Royal flight catering here is held to a written household specification kept on file between movements, with royal household dietary and halal VIP requests produced against that same standing record on request.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at SHW
Wide-body charter aircraft operated under ACMI and wet-lease arrangements are what the single stand at Sharurah is sized for, taking a full three-cabin uplift rather than a partial load. Charter flight catering at Sharurah covers group movements and special missions counted against the loading sheet, with charter flight catering at OESH staged in the order the galleys are laid out across a multi-leg rotation.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at Sharurah
The single wide-body reference code at OESH governs every arrival as its own loading event, which is what makes ad hoc airline catering workable for a carrier that only touches this station occasionally. Outstation catering, diversion catering and technical stop catering all run off the same duty roster, AOG included, with crew meals in Saudi Arabia boxed to the roster across a multi-leg rotation and ad hoc catering at SHW staged against one loading sheet per stand.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at OESH
On the same field that holds Sharurah's single wide-body stand, the GA terminal and the FBOs draw on private jet catering in Sharurah delivered under the same cold chain as an airline uplift. Business aviation catering and business jet catering here follow the identical paperwork trail, with FBO catering handed over on the same sealed-cart standard rather than a lighter one.
Private jets →
Charter flight catering reviewed at Sharurah, Saudi Arabia
Operators on commercial aviation catering at OESH / SHW
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
Scheduled airline
“We arranged tour operator charter catering for the group at Sharurah (SHW/OESH) after a late schedule update. The meals were clearly labeled, portions were suitable for the group, and the delivery stayed on time despite a moving departure. The crew was happy with the organization. From an operational point of view, the service was easy to manage and required very little follow-up.”
★★★★☆Scheduled airline
Lorenzo — Ramp Operations Manager
“We needed humanitarian flight catering at Sharurah (SHW/OESH) for a time-sensitive operation. 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. That made the turnaround easier for both the flight crew and the team on the ground.”
★★★★☆Private jet operator
Maja — Flight Experience Manager
“For a cargo sector from Sharurah (SHW/OESH), we arranged cargo airline catering for the operating crew. The crew received the correct quantities and the handover was quick, which is exactly what we needed. We would use them again for another cargo sector. Updates were timely and the final delivery matched the confirmation we had from operations.”
★★★★★Government flight department
Aiden — Air Transport Operations Officer
Station data for airport catering at Sharurah (OESH / SHW)
| Datum | Value |
|---|---|
| Longest runway | 3,650 m |
| Runways | 1 |
| Aerodrome reference code | wide-body |
| ICAO | OESH |
Airline catering services FAQ for Sharurah
Diversion catering and ramp questions at Sharurah
What operations gets asked every week about Sharurah.
Ask operations directly →When does airline catering reach the aircraft airside at OESH, and how does it board?
When the aircraft is on stand, the uplift moves airside under our own clearance and boards by hi-loader directly to galley height, with no handover at the foot of the aircraft.
Where does airline catering cost get set for a rotation through Sharurah?
The quotation is built from the cabin count, the specification and the loading window requested, since no fixed price list is published; the desk returns a figure once those three are confirmed.
At what point does an order for Sharurah Airport need to be placed, and how late can the specification still change?
The first step is confirming the stand time and cabin count, which sets the loading window everything else is planned against; changes to the specification are worked against that window rather than a fixed cutoff.
Whose meal codes are produced for a flight through SHW, and how are they documented?
Across halal, kosher and the full set of IATA SPML codes, each request is logged per passenger and produced on a separate line before it is sealed into the uplift.
Are VIP, VVIP and government flights catered at OESH, and under what protocol?
The same coordinator who runs a scheduled rotation runs a VIP flight catering or government flight catering movement here, with the file documented per passenger and the uplift sealed before it leaves the kitchen.
Jet catering at airports near Sharurah
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Seiyun
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Airline & VIP flight catering →
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Najran
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Airline & VIP flight catering →
AXK / OYAT
Ataq
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Airline & VIP flight catering →
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