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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Wide-body airline catering, VIP flight catering and private jet catering at Abu Dhabi (OMAA / AUH)
AUH (IATA) · OMAA (ICAO)
A 4106 m runway at Abu Dhabi clears the wide-body movements that anchor scheduled, charter, government and royal traffic through this station, and inflight catering here is built to that same wide-body scale. Hi-loader boarding takes trolleys straight to galley height on the ramp stands, so in-flight catering reaches the aircraft without a foot-of-stairs handover, and inflight catering stays on one uplift record from kitchen seal to aircraft door.
4,106 m
Longest runway
Wide-body
Largest aircraft handled
2
Runways
1
FBO 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 — Abu Dhabi
Hi-loader aviation catering on the Abu Dhabi airport apron
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Inflight catering order window at Abu Dhabi (AUH)
Aircraft catering handover at the galley door, Abu Dhabi (AUH)
Ramp access on AUH's wide-body stands sets the pace of the loading window: every trolley is sealed at the kitchen, escorted across the apron, and boarded through the galley door before the crew signs it off. A catering uplift is planned to the reference code that governs this field, not to a generic turnaround. Two runways and one ramp routing keep the sequence the same on every rotation.
Between our kitchen and the stand at OMAA sit screening, an escorted convoy and apron traffic crossing two runways, and we plan every catering uplift against the worst of that sequence rather than the average of it. Chain of custody runs on a single sealed cart from the moment galley catering is packed to the moment it clears the checkpoint, with no handover to a second vehicle in between. Temperature is logged when the load is sealed at the kitchen and logged again at the aircraft, and the crew signature that closes the loading sheet is the same record that opens the next one.
One coordinator carries the seal from our kitchen to the signature at the aircraft door.
Flight kitchen and crew meals for Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Pilot meals and cleared production crews for OMAA / AUH
Airport catering at Abu Dhabi runs from a flight kitchen holding hot production, pastry, a cold larder and a protocol cell under one roof, built to feed the wide-body stands this field sets aside for scheduled, charter and government movements. HACCP governs every line in that kitchen, from the cold larder through to the trolleys sealed for boarding, so a rotation added at short notice runs on the same standard as the scheduled programme. Airport catering in United Arab Emirates depends on that single site rather than a network of subcontracted kitchens, which is what keeps the flight kitchen at AUH answerable for its own output.
Government flight catering at AUH is handled by a named, security-cleared team on every rotation, not a rotating pool drawn in for the day. Every member sits on the access list for the ramp and the kitchen alike, trained to royal household standards and to the paperwork a sealed uplift carries from seal to signature. Catering at AUH keeps that same team on repeat movements, so the chain of custody is held by people who already know the ramp routing and the checkpoint sequence.
Halal airline meals and special meals at AUH
Royal flight catering standards per cabin at OMAA / AUH
Menus at Abu Dhabi are written to the cabin, the mission and the season rather than to a fixed cycle, so a First and VVIP specification and a main-cabin tray set are built from the same production line without one compromising the other. Inflight catering here draws on the region's produce where the season allows it — Gulf seafood, dates and orchard fruit worked into a written specification rather than a fixed menu card. Every dietary and religious set is documented per passenger and per cabin, labelled before it leaves the kitchen, and matched against the loading sheet at the galley door. A VIP flight menu and a charter flight menu are built from the same protocol cell, so a change of mission never means a change of kitchen.
First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins at OMAA are plated to a written specification held on file between rotations, with caviar and à-la-carte service available on request rather than fixed to a cycle. VIP flight catering here is signed off cabin by cabin, so the same standard travels whether the movement is scheduled, charter or state.
Business cabins
Business cabins at Abu Dhabi board multi-choice hot service in oven-ready formats sized to the galley fitted to each aircraft, packed as tray sets and passenger meal boxes. Crew meals and pilot meals travel in their own boxes matched to the duty roster, so cabin crew meals never share a cart with the passenger load.
Protocol & dietary
Protocol and dietary requirements at AUH are documented per passenger, covering household, religious and medical sets alongside halal and kosher production run on a separate line before it is sealed for boarding. Inflight catering here works the full range of IATA special meal codes against that same documented record, matched to the loading sheet at the galley door.
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 under HACCP control at Abu Dhabi
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 Abu Dhabi airport
Abu Dhabi carries scheduled, charter, government and royal traffic across two runways built to a wide-body reference code, and that mix sets three distinct problems for catering: a state delegation is a documentation problem, a wide-body peak wave is a capacity problem, and a repeat charter rotation is a repetition problem the kitchen has to hold steady on. Airline catering and aviation catering at OMAA answer to the same production line regardless of which of those three is on the stand that day.
The uplift travels from our flight kitchen to the ramp by sealed cart, cleared through the airside checkpoint, and boarded by hi-loader straight to galley height on the wide-body stand rather than handed over at the foot of the aircraft. Inflight catering and in-flight catering at OMAA share that one route, with ramp access held on our own badges so the convoy does not wait on a third party's clearance.
One coordinator runs the rotation from seal to signature, and airport catering at Abu Dhabi closes on a handover record the crew signs at the galley door.
VVIP catering and commercial flights at Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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Government and state flight catering at Abu Dhabi
On the wide-body stands this reference code sets aside, a head of state aircraft boards on the same ramp routing as a scheduled widebody, with none of the convoy shortened for it. Government flight catering at OMAA runs on a protocol 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 OMAA
Sequencing a royal rotation on AUH's wide-body stands means holding the loading order against the reference code rather than the movement itself, since the same hi-loader access serves every aircraft on that ramp. Royal flight catering here is held to a written household specification kept on file between movements, covering private airliners from BBJ and ACJ through wide-body VIP, with halal and household dietary requirements produced on request.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at AUH
4106 metres of runway, and the wide-body movements that length clears line up on the same stands used for scheduled traffic. Charter flight catering at Abu Dhabi for ACMI and wet-lease operators, group movements and special missions runs a full three-cabin uplift counted against the loading sheet, staged in the order the galleys are laid out for that multi-leg rotation.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at Abu Dhabi
Two runways built to a wide-body reference code let AUH take a scheduled widebody on short notice as readily as a planned rotation, and ad hoc airline catering here is built for that switch. Outstation catering, diversion catering and technical stop catering run off the same duty roster as the scheduled programme, AOG included, with crew meals boxed to the roster across a multi-leg rotation.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at OMAA
Our kitchen runs the same cold chain and the same paperwork into the GA terminal and the FBOs on the field as it does onto AUH's wide-body stands, so business aviation traffic is never a separate production line. Private jet catering and FBO catering here sit on the loading sheet as another rotation, with business aviation catering and business jet catering cleared through the same checkpoint as an airline uplift.
Private jets →
FBOs at Abu Dhabi
royal jet abu dhabi
Charter flight catering reviewed at OMAA / AUH
Operators on commercial aviation catering at Abu Dhabi
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
Scheduled airline
“We were looking for a dependable airline ops catering supplier in Abu Dhabi (AUH/OMAA) and the process was straightforward. One contact handled the order from confirmation through delivery, which saved our dispatch team a lot of follow-up. Very convenient for operational coverage. From an operational point of view, the service was easy to manage and required very little follow-up.”
★★★★★Private jet operator
Yulia — VIP Flight Operations Manager
“Our team needed private jet catering in Abu Dhabi for a short-notice flight at AUH/OMAA. The order was confirmed quickly, delivered on time, and packed exactly as requested for the aircraft. I would use them again for another flight from Abu Dhabi. The order was complete on arrival and easy for us to check before closing the doors.”
★★★★★Charter operator
Alain — Network Operations Coordinator
“Our passenger profile required special meals at Abu Dhabi (AUH/OMAA), 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. Responses were quick whenever we had a question, which helped us keep the flight on schedule.”
★★★★★Scheduled airline
Rafael — OCC Coordinator
Airport catering data for Abu Dhabi (OMAA / AUH)
| Datum | Value |
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| Longest runway | 4,106 m |
| Runways | 2 |
| Aerodrome reference code | wide-body |
| ICAO | OMAA |
Business jet catering questions at AUH
Technical stop catering questions at AUH
What operations gets asked every week about Abu Dhabi.
Ask operations directly →Who delivers private jet catering to the FBOs and the GA terminal at AUH?
Across the whole field, our kitchen delivers private jet catering to every FBO and to the GA terminal, on the same cold chain and the same paperwork as an airline uplift, with FBO catering cleared through one checkpoint rather than a separate route for each operator.
How far in advance does OMAA need an order placed, and how late can the specification change?
Our standing production schedule at the kitchen sets the lead time for a full three-cabin order, and how far in advance that has to be confirmed depends on the cabin count and the loading window booked for the rotation. A last minute airline catering change to the specification can still be worked in provided it reaches the kitchen ahead of the sealed-cart dispatch.
Where is airline catering delivered airside at Abu Dhabi, and how does the uplift reach the aircraft?
The signed handover record at the galley door is the proof: airline catering is boarded by hi-loader straight to galley height on the wide-body stand, with airside delivery held on our own ramp badges from the kitchen to the aircraft.
At which point in the sequence are halal, kosher and the IATA special meal codes produced at Abu Dhabi Airport?
The first step is a separate production line, run before the main cabin load is packed, where halal, kosher and the full set of SPML codes are prepared and sealed on their own. Special meals are then documented per passenger and matched against the loading sheet at the galley door.
Does AUH cater VIP, VVIP and government flights, and under what protocol?
Every VIP flight catering and government flight catering rotation here runs on the same protocol file, security-cleared staff and sealed uplift as a head of state movement, whether the aircraft is a scheduled widebody or a private airliner.
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Offloading
Return leg, if any
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Contact
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Uplift at Abu Dhabi (AUH)