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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — Kartepe, Turkey
Kartepe (LTBQ / KCO): airline catering, VIP flight catering and private jet catering
KCO (IATA) · LTBQ (ICAO)
With a single wide-body reference code fixing every stand at this field, one loading plan covers scheduled, charter, government and royal movements without a change of method. Our hi-loader boards straight to galley height here, so inflight catering and in-flight catering both move from a sealed cart to the aircraft door as one uplift, never a delivery left at the foot of the aircraft.
3,000 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 — Kartepe
Hi-loader boarding for inflight catering at Kartepe
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Aircraft catering lead times at LTBQ
Aircraft catering handover at the galley door, Kartepe
Ramp access is what actually governs the loading window here, because the single wide-body stand at Kartepe takes one sealed cart movement at a time rather than several in parallel. Our crews hold that apron slot from the moment the cart leaves the kitchen door to the moment the galley door closes, so the catering uplift is timed against the stand, not against a general estimate. Nothing about the sequence changes for a government or a royal rotation; only the paperwork that travels with it does.
Between our kitchen and the stand at Kartepe sit screening, an escort onto the apron, and the ordinary traffic of a single-runway field, and we plan the catering uplift against the worst of those three rather than the average of them. Chain of custody runs on paper as well as on the apron: every cart is sealed at the kitchen, logged onto the escort vehicle, and checked again at the galley door before the load counts as delivered. Temperatures are read at sealing and read again at handover, and the galley catering that reaches the aircraft carries both readings and a signature closing the load.
One sealed cart, one escort, one signature: the convoy is the risk we plan against.
Flight kitchen and crew meals for Kartepe airport
Cleared crews behind government flight catering at KCO
Kartepe draws on a flight kitchen built around hot production, pastry, a cold larder and a protocol line under one roof, so airport catering here does not depend on a chain of separate suppliers for each cabin. HACCP governs every stage of that production, from intake to the sealed cart that leaves for the apron. Airport catering at LTBQ is therefore a single accountable line, not a set of subcontracted steps stitched together at the last moment.
The team behind government flight catering at Kartepe is the same named crew on every rotation, not a rota drawn from a general pool. Security clearance is held on file for each of them, access to the kitchen and the ramp is limited to that list, and training covers the household service standards a royal or state movement expects. That consistency, not a larger headcount, is what a protocol officer is actually checking for.
VIP flight catering menus for Kartepe (KCO) departures
Royal flight catering standards per cabin at LTBQ
Menus here are written to the cabin and the mission first, and only then to the season, so a First-class rotation and a charter group departing an hour apart are never served from the same specification. Turkish dairy, orchard fruit and fish from the region sit alongside internationally sourced staples, without either standing in for the other. Inflight catering at Kartepe is documented per passenger for allergen, halal, kosher and medical requirements, labelled by cabin before it ever reaches the cart. Nothing leaves the kitchen without that paperwork attached to it.
First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins at Kartepe are plated to a written specification held on file between rotations, with à-la-carte and caviar service available on request rather than by default. VIP flight catering here is checked against that specification at sealing, not improvised at the galley door.
Business cabins
Business cabins at KCO run on multi-choice hot service in oven-ready formats sized to the galley fitted to the aircraft, boxed as tray sets rather than plated individually. Crew meals, cabin crew meals and pilot meals are boxed separately to the roster, so the flight deck and the cabin crew are never drawn from the passenger load.
Protocol & dietary
Household, religious and medical requirements are documented per passenger at Kartepe, covering halal and kosher sets and the full range of IATA special meal codes. Each is produced on a separate line and sealed before it leaves that line, so inflight catering here keeps every dietary set traceable back to one production run.
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
Food safety and cold chain for aviation catering at Kartepe (KCO)
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 LTBQ / KCO
Kartepe carries scheduled, charter and government movements across a single wide-body stand, which turns every arrival into a sequencing question rather than a volume one: a delegation brings a documentation load, a charter brings a full three-cabin uplift, and both compete for the same apron slot. That single stand is what airline catering at LTBQ is actually planned against, not an assumed number of simultaneous aircraft.
The uplift reaches the aircraft by hi-loader from a sealed cart, escorted from our kitchen across the apron to the stand, with our own crew on the ramp for the handover. Aviation catering at Kartepe and airport catering in Turkey both run off that same escorted route rather than a kerbside drop, and inflight catering in Turkey more broadly follows the same principle: board at the galley, never leave it at the tarmac.
One coordinator is named to each rotation here, carts are sealed before they leave the kitchen, and the handover at the aircraft is signed, so in-flight catering at Kartepe closes on a record rather than on an assumption.
VVIP catering and commercial flights at KCO
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Government and state flight catering at KCO
The wide-body reference code held here sets the same stand and the same hi-loader sequence for a state movement as for a scheduled service, so government flight catering at Kartepe adds documentation rather than a different loading method. Delegations and official movements travel with a protocol file recorded per passenger, security-cleared staff on the ramp, and the uplift sealed before it leaves the kitchen for any head of state aircraft on the schedule.
Government & state flights →
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at Kartepe
Our crews hold the same wide-body reference code standard for a private airliner as for any scheduled wide-body, which is what lets royal flight catering at Kartepe move from a written household specification rather than from a fresh brief each time. BBJ, ACJ and wide-body VIP movements are boarded to that specification, kept on file between movements, with halal and other household requirements produced against it on request rather than negotiated on the day.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at LTBQ
Wide-body is the reference code this stand is rated to, and it carries a full three-cabin uplift for ACMI and wet-lease operators, group movements and special missions without splitting the load across two positions. Charter flight catering at Kartepe is counted against the loading sheet cabin by cabin, and charter flight catering at LTBQ is staged in the order the galleys are laid out, so a group charter boards on the same sequence as a scheduled wide-body.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at KCO
A single wide-body stand at Kartepe means an unscheduled arrival has to be sequenced against whatever is already on the apron, which is exactly what ad hoc airline catering here is built to absorb. Carriers running this station as an outstation draw on the same duty roster for outstation catering, diversion catering and technical stop catering, with AOG covered on the same line across a multi-leg rotation; ad hoc airline catering in Kartepe and crew meals at KCO move on that roster without a separate booking process.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at Kartepe
A business aircraft sharing the wide-body reference code apron at Kartepe still boards from the same kitchen and the same sealed cart as a scheduled wide-body, because the reference code governs the ramp rather than the aircraft type on it. Private jet catering at Kartepe reaches the FBOs on the field and the GA terminal on that identical cold chain, with the same paperwork closing the handover as on an airline uplift.
Private jets →
Charter flight catering trusted at LTBQ
Flight departments on jet catering at Kartepe airport
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
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Scheduled airline
“We requested tray set catering airline at Kartepe (KCO/LTBQ) and the packaging worked very well onboard. The trays and boxes were organized logically, which saved the cabin crew time before passengers arrived. Exactly what we need for a quick galley setup. That made the turnaround easier for both the flight crew and the team on the ground.”
★★★★★Private jet operator
Sarah — VIP Flight Operations Manager
“Our operation through Kartepe (KCO/LTBQ) included a tech stop request at short notice. They understood the operational language and did not need every change explained twice. That operational understanding was the biggest advantage. From an operational point of view, the service was easy to manage and required very little follow-up.”
★★★★★Government flight department
Hana — State Flight Coordinator
“I ordered private jet catering for our departure from Kartepe (KCO/LTBQ) and was very happy with the service. Everything was easy to check and load, and the passenger requests were prepared exactly as ordered. I would definitely order from them again. Responses were quick whenever we had a question, which helped us keep the flight on schedule.”
★★★★★Charter operator
Maya — Flight Operations Coordinator
Kartepe (LTBQ / KCO): airport catering data
| Datum | Value |
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| Longest runway | 3,000 m |
| Runways | 1 |
| Aerodrome reference code | wide-body |
| ICAO | LTBQ |
Business jet catering questions at Kartepe (KCO)
Diversion catering and ramp questions at Kartepe (KCO)
What operations gets asked every week about Kartepe.
Ask operations directly →How are halal, kosher and other special meals documented for flights through Kartepe?
Halal, kosher and the full set of IATA SPML codes are produced on a separate line and logged per passenger, so every special meal set is traceable back to that run.
Can KCO support private jet catering delivered to the FBOs and the GA terminal?
There is one cold chain covering the whole field, so FBO catering and private jet catering reach the GA terminal and every FBO on it under the same seal and paperwork as an airline uplift.
LTBQ — is airline catering delivered airside, and how does it reach the aircraft?
The hi-loader is the equipment that carries every uplift here, boarding straight to galley height so airline catering is an airside delivery rather than a kerbside handoff.
The single wide-body stand at Kartepe raises one obvious question: how much does airline catering cost there?
There are three things a quotation turns on here: cabin count, the specification chosen for each cabin, and the loading window booked against the stand; our desk returns a figure once those are set.
Commercial aviation catering near Kartepe
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Pendik
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Airline & VIP flight catering →
YEI / LTBR
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Airline & VIP flight catering →
AOE / LTBY
Eskişehir
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Airline & VIP flight catering →
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