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.

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.

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
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.





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.
| Where | Published stations | Longest runway | VIP / gov terminal | Kitchen to stand | Aerodrome code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anguilla | 1 | 1,665 m | 0 of 1 | — | narrow-body |
| Antigua and Barbuda | 2 | 2,744 m | 0 of 2 | — | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Aruba | 1 | 2,743 m | 0 of 1 | — | wide-body |
| Bahamas | 27 | 3,460 m | 0 of 27 | — | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Barbados | 1 | 3,353 m | 0 of 1 | — | wide-body |
| Belize | 8 | 2,950 m | 0 of 8 | — | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Bermuda | 1 | 2,958 m | 0 of 1 | — | wide-body |
| British Virgin Islands | 2 | 1,415 m | 0 of 2 | — | narrow-body |
| Canada | 231 | 4,267 m | 0 of 231 | — | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Caribbean Netherlands | 3 | 2,880 m | 0 of 3 | — | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Cayman Islands | 3 | 2,398 m | 0 of 3 | — | narrow-body |
| Costa Rica | 15 | 3,012 m | 0 of 15 | — | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Cuba | 23 | 4,002 m | 0 of 23 | — | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Curaçao | 1 | 3,410 m | 0 of 1 | — | wide-body |
| Dominica | 2 | 1,936 m | 0 of 2 | — | narrow-body |
| Dominican Republic | 9 | 3,353 m | 0 of 9 | — | narrow-body · wide-body |
| El Salvador | 2 | 3,200 m | 0 of 2 | — | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Greenland | 10 | 3,047 m | 0 of 10 | — | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Grenada | 1 | 2,744 m | 0 of 1 | — | wide-body |
| Guadeloupe | 2 | 3,505 m | 0 of 2 | — | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Guatemala | 7 | 3,000 m | 0 of 7 | — | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Haiti | 6 | 3,040 m | 0 of 6 | — | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Honduras | 8 | 3,010 m | 0 of 8 | — | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Jamaica | 5 | 3,060 m | 0 of 5 | — | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Martinique | 1 | 3,000 m | 0 of 1 | — | wide-body |
| Mexico | 68 | 4,500 m | 0 of 68 | — | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Montserrat | 1 | 600 m | 0 of 1 | — | narrow-body |
| Nicaragua | 3 | 2,478 m | 0 of 3 | — | narrow-body |
| Panama | 8 | 3,050 m | 0 of 8 | — | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Puerto Rico | 9 | 3,567 m | 0 of 9 | — | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Saint Barthélemy | 1 | 646 m | 0 of 1 | — | narrow-body |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | 2 | 2,317 m | 0 of 2 | — | narrow-body |
| Saint Lucia | 2 | 2,744 m | 0 of 2 | — | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Saint Martin | 1 | 1,200 m | 0 of 1 | — | narrow-body |
| Saint Pierre and Miquelon | 1 | 1,800 m | 0 of 1 | — | narrow-body |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 5 | 2,743 m | 0 of 5 | — | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Sint Maarten | 1 | 2,300 m | 0 of 1 | — | narrow-body |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 2 | 3,200 m | 0 of 2 | — | wide-body |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | 4 | 2,804 m | 0 of 4 | — | narrow-body · wide-body |
| U.S. Virgin Islands | 2 | 3,049 m | 0 of 2 | — | narrow-body · wide-body |
| United States | 864 | 5,120 m | 1 of 864 | 22 min | C · 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
Ask operations directly →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.
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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