Airline & VIP flight catering — North America

Airline, VIP Flight and Private Jet Catering Across North America

Wide-body loading and ramp access anchor airline catering across North America, with hi-loader boarding taking a full uplift straight to galley height. Inflight catering here runs from scheduled airline turns to ad hoc diversions, coordinated aviation catering from one point of contact across every stand.

A catering hi-loader raised to the forward galley door of a wide-body on stand, the platform level with the doorway and the truck squared up beneath it.
1346
Documented stations
41
Countries covered
5,120 m
Longest runway

Airline Catering Across North America, By Country

Each country page below sets out its stations, runway data and terminal capability for airline catering. Use it to check ramp access, aircraft codes and kitchen distance before routing a request to the right field.

Anguilla
1Published stations
1,665 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
2Published stations
2,744 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Antigua and Barbuda
Aruba
1Published stations
2,743 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Aruba
Bahamas
27Published stations
3,460 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Bahamas
Barbados
1Published stations
3,353 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Barbados
Belize
8Published stations
2,950 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Belize
Bermuda
1Published stations
2,958 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Bermuda
British Virgin Islands
2Published stations
1,415 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in British Virgin Islands
Canada
231Published stations
4,267 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Canada
Caribbean Netherlands
3Published stations
2,880 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Caribbean Netherlands
Cayman Islands
3Published stations
2,398 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Cayman Islands
Costa Rica
15Published stations
3,012 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Costa Rica
Cuba
23Published stations
4,002 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Cuba
Curaçao
1Published stations
3,410 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Curaçao
Dominica
2Published stations
1,936 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Dominica
Dominican Republic
9Published stations
3,353 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Dominican Republic
El Salvador
2Published stations
3,200 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in El Salvador
Greenland
10Published stations
3,047 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Greenland
Grenada
1Published stations
2,744 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Grenada
Guadeloupe
2Published stations
3,505 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Guadeloupe
Guatemala
7Published stations
3,000 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Guatemala
Haiti
6Published stations
3,040 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Haiti
Honduras
8Published stations
3,010 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Honduras
Jamaica
5Published stations
3,060 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Jamaica
Martinique
1Published stations
3,000 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Martinique
Mexico
68Published stations
4,500 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Mexico
Montserrat
1Published stations
600 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Montserrat
Nicaragua
3Published stations
2,478 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Nicaragua
Panama
8Published stations
3,050 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Panama
Puerto Rico
9Published stations
3,567 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Puerto Rico
Saint Barthélemy
1Published stations
646 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Saint Barthélemy
Saint Kitts and Nevis
2Published stations
2,317 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
2Published stations
2,744 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Saint Lucia
Saint Martin
1Published stations
1,200 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Saint Martin
Saint Pierre and Miquelon
1Published stations
1,800 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Saint Pierre and Miquelon
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
5Published stations
2,743 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Sint Maarten
1Published stations
2,300 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Sint Maarten
Trinidad and Tobago
2Published stations
3,200 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Trinidad and Tobago
Turks and Caicos Islands
4Published stations
2,804 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in Turks and Caicos Islands
U.S. Virgin Islands
2Published stations
3,049 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in U.S. Virgin Islands
United States
864Published stations
5,120 mLongest runway
Airline, VIP & private jet catering in United States
A catering hi-loader raised to the aft galley door of a wide-body on stand, its platform level with the doorway and a second truck waiting below.

On the apron — North America

Ramp Access and Hi-Loader Uplift Across North America

Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.

How Aviation Catering Runs Across North America

Airline catering across North America runs on wide-body movements first: scheduled turns, ad hoc uplifts and diversions that need a kitchen able to move at short notice. Business aviation is the dominant traffic profile recorded at stations published for this level, and the operating rhythm reflects that: fast turnarounds, tight scheduling windows, and a request pipeline built for aircraft that do not always file far in advance.

At Teterboro (TEB), a VIP terminal sits alongside a cleared aerodrome reference code C field, with kitchen to stand recorded at 22 minutes over 14 km. Five FBOs are recorded there — Atlantic Aviation, Jet Aviation, and the three Signature Aviation locations — giving an ops desk several points of handover on the same field rather than one.

An airline catering companies desk covering this level works from one intake regardless of which stand the aircraft occupies: flight or tail number, ETA, pax and crew count, aircraft type. Ground handling services and airport catering teams are briefed against that same intake, and cold chain is held from kitchen to hi-loader to galley door.

Coordination across stations is the point: one coordinator, one uplift standard, applied whether the movement is a scheduled airline rotation or a single business aviation departure.

Compliance

One Standard for Airline Catering Across North America

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.

One Operation, Five Ways to Fly Across North America

The same operation covers airline catering, VIP flight catering and charter flight catering across North America, run from one coordinator regardless of aircraft type or mission. Government, royal and private aviation movements are handled on the same cold chain. Each segment below routes to its own page.

Ops gov.
01
Government and State Flight Catering, Field to Field
Government flight catering across these fields runs on cleared personnel and sealed loads, tracked under one chain of custody. A single named coordinator carries VIP flight catering protocol from the production kitchen to the galley door.
Government & state flights →
Royal vvip food.
02
Royal and VVIP Flight Catering, Household Standard
Royal flight catering carries household dietary requirements leg to leg, briefed fresh to the kitchen brigade for each movement. VVIP catering is held to the household standard from first stand to last across the region.
Royal & VVIP flights →
Menus card charter comm copie.
03
Wide-Body Charter and ACMI Catering, North American Fields
Charter flight catering for wide-body charter, ACMI and wet-lease operators covers group movements and special missions with a full three-cabin uplift. Loads are staged in the sequence the galleys are laid out, ready for boarding.
Wide-body charter →
A complete tray set on a black tray: a plated fish fillet with rice and vegetables, a seeded roll with herb butter and a berry dessert in a glass.
04
Scheduled and Ad Hoc Airline Catering, Region-Wide
Scheduled outstation runs and ad hoc airline catering services sit alongside diversions, technical stops and AOG recovery. Crew meal boxes are built separately for flight, cabin and cargo crew on every uplift.
Commercial airlines →
Pvj1.
05
Private Jet and Business Aviation Catering, FBO Delivered
Private jet catering is handled by our dedicated business aviation branch, delivered into FBOs including Atlantic Aviation, Jet Aviation and Signature Aviation at Teterboro. The same cold chain and paperwork apply as on an airline uplift.
Private jets →

Compare Airline Catering Fields Across North America

The table sets out which field takes wide-body traffic, which boards by hi-loader, and which sits closest to a production kitchen — use it to route a request to the right stand before it is filed.

The countries of North America we document, compared on the hard data that decides whether a wide-body can be loaded.
WherePublished stationsLongest runwayVIP / gov terminalKitchen to standAerodrome code
Anguilla11,665 m0 of 1—narrow-body
Antigua and Barbuda22,744 m0 of 2—narrow-body · wide-body
Aruba12,743 m0 of 1—wide-body
Bahamas273,460 m0 of 27—narrow-body · wide-body
Barbados13,353 m0 of 1—wide-body
Belize82,950 m0 of 8—narrow-body · wide-body
Bermuda12,958 m0 of 1—wide-body
British Virgin Islands21,415 m0 of 2—narrow-body
Canada2314,267 m0 of 231—narrow-body · wide-body
Caribbean Netherlands32,880 m0 of 3—narrow-body · wide-body
Cayman Islands32,398 m0 of 3—narrow-body
Costa Rica153,012 m0 of 15—narrow-body · wide-body
Cuba234,002 m0 of 23—narrow-body · wide-body
Curaçao13,410 m0 of 1—wide-body
Dominica21,936 m0 of 2—narrow-body
Dominican Republic93,353 m0 of 9—narrow-body · wide-body
El Salvador23,200 m0 of 2—narrow-body · wide-body
Greenland103,047 m0 of 10—narrow-body · wide-body
Grenada12,744 m0 of 1—wide-body
Guadeloupe23,505 m0 of 2—narrow-body · wide-body
Guatemala73,000 m0 of 7—narrow-body · wide-body
Haiti63,040 m0 of 6—narrow-body · wide-body
Honduras83,010 m0 of 8—narrow-body · wide-body
Jamaica53,060 m0 of 5—narrow-body · wide-body
Martinique13,000 m0 of 1—wide-body
Mexico684,500 m0 of 68—narrow-body · wide-body
Montserrat1600 m0 of 1—narrow-body
Nicaragua32,478 m0 of 3—narrow-body
Panama83,050 m0 of 8—narrow-body · wide-body
Puerto Rico93,567 m0 of 9—narrow-body · wide-body
Saint Barthélemy1646 m0 of 1—narrow-body
Saint Kitts and Nevis22,317 m0 of 2—narrow-body
Saint Lucia22,744 m0 of 2—narrow-body · wide-body
Saint Martin11,200 m0 of 1—narrow-body
Saint Pierre and Miquelon11,800 m0 of 1—narrow-body
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines52,743 m0 of 5—narrow-body · wide-body
Sint Maarten12,300 m0 of 1—narrow-body
Trinidad and Tobago23,200 m0 of 2—wide-body
Turks and Caicos Islands42,804 m0 of 4—narrow-body · wide-body
U.S. Virgin Islands23,049 m0 of 2—narrow-body · wide-body
United States8645,120 m1 of 86422 minC · narrow-body · wide-body

Filing a Catering Request Across North America

Send flight or tail number, ETA, aircraft type and stand, plus pax and crew count broken down by cabin, to the ops desk covering the field in question. Include special meal codes and any government or VIP flight catering clearance the movement requires. Requests reach the same intake whether the aircraft is a scheduled airline rotation, an ad hoc charter or a business aviation departure. From there the request is matched to the nearest kitchen and staged for hi-loader or ramp delivery. Submit the details through the quote request to get a coordinator assigned to the movement.

North America Catering Questions

What Ops Desks Ask About This Region

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Which stations in North America are published with hard operational data?

Teterboro (TEB / KTEB) is published for this level, with a longest runway of 1830 metres, two runways, aerodrome reference code C, and a VIP terminal on field. Kitchen to stand is recorded at 22 minutes over 14 kilometres.

Can catering be loaded directly onto the aircraft rather than left at the stand?

Where ramp access and hi-loader boarding are available at the field, uplift is loaded straight on board rather than delivered at the foot of the aircraft. This is confirmed per station at the point of booking.

Does the same operation handle both airline turns and business aviation departures?

Yes. Airline catering, VIP flight catering and private jet catering across North America run from one coordinator and one cold chain, regardless of aircraft type or the FBO used.

Which FBOs are covered at Teterboro?

Atlantic Aviation, Jet Aviation, and the Signature Aviation East, South and West locations are all recorded at Teterboro, giving several handover points on the same field.

What is needed to file a request for a movement in North America?

An ops desk needs flight or tail number, ETA, aircraft type, stand, pax and crew count by cabin, and any special meal codes. This routes the request to the nearest kitchen for staging.

Back to Global Airline Catering Coverage →

Request Airline Catering Across North America

Get a Wide-Body Uplift Quote for This Region

One ops desk covers the whole route in North America. Give us the aircraft and what you need loaded, and a coordinator comes back with a quote.

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