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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — Amos, Canada
Airline catering, VIP flight catering and private jet catering at Amos (CYEY / YEY)
YEY (IATA) · CYEY (ICAO)
A single narrow-body stand and a 1524 m runway set the working rhythm at Amos: one rotation at a time, planned tight rather than spread thin. Our crews board every cabin by hi-loader to galley height, so inflight catering and in-flight catering here move straight from the sealed cart onto the aircraft, with wide-body-grade uplift discipline applied to every flight this field takes.
1,524 m
Longest runway
Narrow-body
Largest aircraft handled
1
Runways
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 — Amos
Inflight catering at wide-body scale for YEY
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Aviation catering timeline, order to boarding, at Amos airport
Aircraft catering handover at the galley door, YEY
What a narrow-body reference code allows at Amos is one clean run: the sealed cart leaves our kitchen, crosses the apron under ramp access we hold for the length of the load, and reaches the galley door on a hi-loader set to its height. Every catering uplift is timed from that seal, not from an estimate, because a single stand leaves no room to recover a late one. The sequence is fixed whether the flight is scheduled, charter or state, and it is the same sequence every rotation.
Between our kitchen and the one stand at Amos sit airside screening, an escort onto the apron and the ordinary traffic of a single-runway field, and we plan every catering uplift against the slowest of those, not the fastest. Chain of custody runs from the seal at the kitchen door to the signature at the galley, with a coordinator named on the sheet for the whole route. Temperature is logged when the cart is sealed and logged again at handover, so a galley catering delivery arrives with its record already closed rather than started on arrival. Nothing about the load is estimated at either end.
One seal, one coordinator, one signature: the load is accounted for end to end.
Airline food supplier kitchen serving Amos (YEY)
Crew meals and passenger sets from one kitchen at CYEY
Airport catering at CYEY runs from one kitchen built to serve a single narrow-body stand rather than a bank of wide-body gates, and that scale is what lets hot production, pastry and a cold larder sit close enough to the apron to matter. HACCP governs every line in the building, from intake to the cart that leaves sealed for the ramp. Airport catering in Canada at a field this size depends on that discipline holding at low volume just as firmly as it would at high, because the margin for a second attempt does not exist here.
Government flight catering at Amos is worked by the same named team on every rotation, not a rotating pool drawn in for the day. Each member carries security clearance on file, sits on the access list for the kitchen and the apron, and is trained to the household and protocol standards a state or royal movement expects before the first cart is ever sealed. That continuity is what a protocol officer checks first, and catering at YEY is built to answer it directly.
Halal airline meals and special meals at Amos, Canada
VIP flight catering, specified per passenger at Amos airport
Menus at Amos are set by cabin and by mission rather than by a single fixed offer, adjusted for the season and for the flight ahead of it. Local sourcing draws on what Canada supplies through the year — dairy, cold-water fish, orchard fruit in season — worked into a specification rather than a fixed dish list. Inflight catering at CYEY carries that specification from a VIP flight menu down to a charter flight menu without changing the standard it is checked against. Every plate is built to a documented allergen, halal, kosher or medical set labelled per passenger and per cabin before it ever reaches the galley.
First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins at Amos are plated to a written specification, with à-la-carte and course-by-course service built in where the mission calls for it. Presentation is filed against the standing order each time, so a repeat rotation through YEY sees the same result, not a fresh interpretation.
Business cabins
Business cabins at CYEY run on multi-choice hot service, boxed to oven-ready formats sized to the galley fitted to the aircraft on the stand. Cabin crew meals and pilot meals are packed separately from the passenger tray sets, with crew meals logged against the same roster the flight deck works from.
Protocol & dietary
Protocol and dietary requirements at Amos are documented per passenger before production starts, covering halal, kosher and the full range of IATA special meal codes. Each set is produced on its own line and sealed there, so inflight catering leaving the kitchen carries no cross-contact with the standard tray 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
Aircraft catering compliance at Amos, Canada
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 Amos
Amos works a mixed but modest traffic profile off a single narrow-body stand, which turns every arriving delegation or charter into a documentation exercise first and a capacity one only rarely: with one stand in use, a peak wave simply does not happen here the way it would at a hub, so the discipline that matters is getting the paperwork and the cabin count right before the cart ever leaves the kitchen.
The uplift reaches the aircraft over a fixed route: sealed cart out of our flight kitchen, escorted across the apron, hi-loader up to the galley door of whichever narrow-body is on stand. Ground handling on the field coordinates the timing of that run with the turnaround, and airline catering at YEY is planned against that single stand rather than against a bank of gates.
On every rotation through CYEY we commit to one named coordinator for the load, carts sealed at the kitchen and not reopened before handover, and a signed record closing the chain from seal to stand. Aviation catering in Amos and airport catering in Amos both answer to that same commitment, in-flight catering in Canada included, whatever the size of the flight on the stand that day.
Royal flight catering and scheduled uplifts at CYEY
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Government and state flight catering at CYEY
A narrow-body aircraft carrying a state delegation still boards through the same single stand as any scheduled service at Amos, which is precisely why the paperwork has to be exact before it lands. Government flight catering here covers state visits and official movements with the protocol file documented per passenger, security-cleared staff on the load, and the uplift sealed before it leaves the kitchen, including head of state movements where the mission requires that level of clearance.
Government & state flights →
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at YEY
At a single-stand field like Amos, a private airliner on a royal or VVIP rotation is worked by the same named crew every time it returns, which is what lets household standards hold across repeat movements rather than being rebuilt each visit. Royal flight catering here is kept to a written specification on file between movements, covering BBJ, ACJ and other wide-body VVIP types, with halal and other household dietary requirements produced on request and catering at CYEY logged against that same file each rotation.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at Amos
Sequencing a full three-cabin load onto one narrow-body stand leaves no slack for a second attempt, so charter flight catering at Amos is staged in the exact order the galleys are laid out before the cart ever leaves the kitchen. ACMI and wet-lease operators, group movements and special missions are counted against the loading sheet the same way, and charter flight catering at YEY holds that sequence whether the mission is a single leg or the middle stop of a longer one.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at CYEY
A single narrow-body stand at Amos means every carrier using this field as an outstation is worked to the same tight sequence, whichever rotation is due next. Ad hoc airline catering covers a carrier that treats CYEY as a stop rather than a base, outstation catering keeps a regular service supplied on schedule, and diversion catering or technical stop catering is planned for the aircraft that was not due here at all, AOG included, across a multi-leg day. Crew meals in Amos travel on the same duty roster as the passenger load, and crew meals at CYEY are boxed separately every time.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at YEY
One narrow-body stand at Amos, which is also where the GA traffic using this field is worked from rather than a separate apron. Private jet catering in Amos is handled by our dedicated business aviation branch, delivered to the FBOs on the field and the GA terminal on the same cold chain and the same paperwork as an airline uplift, FBO catering included, with business aviation catering and business jet catering run off the identical kitchen and the identical seal.
Private jets →
Charter flight catering trusted at Amos airport
Ops desks rating airline catering services at Amos (YEY)
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
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Scheduled airline
“We needed delegation flight catering at Amos (YEY/CYEY) for a protocol-sensitive flight. Special meals and crew items were clearly separated, and the aircraft-side handover was smooth. A professional service for movements where discretion matters. From an operational point of view, the service was easy to manage and required very little follow-up.”
★★★★★Government flight department
Haris — Mission Operations Manager
“We ordered VIP airliner catering for our aircraft at Amos (YEY/CYEY) and the result was very good. The order was organized by service and passenger request, which saved us time before departure. A very smooth experience for the cabin team. Responses were quick whenever we had a question, which helped us keep the flight on schedule.”
★★★★★Charter operator
Diana — Charter Operations Executive
“We booked pilgrim flight catering at Amos (YEY/CYEY) for a large group departure. The team handled the volume well and kept the boxes clearly identified by flight and service. We would use the service again for a similar charter. Updates were timely and the final delivery matched the confirmation we had from operations.”
★★★★☆Charter operator
Fiona — Cargo Flight Support Manager
Airport catering reference for Amos (CYEY / YEY)
| Datum | Value |
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| Longest runway | 1,524 m |
| Runways | 1 |
| Aerodrome reference code | narrow-body |
| ICAO | CYEY |
Aviation catering FAQ for Amos (YEY)
Diversion catering and ramp questions at Amos, Canada
What operations gets asked every week about Amos.
Ask operations directly →How does airline catering reach the aircraft airside at YEY?
Every uplift is cleared for airside delivery and boarded by hi-loader to galley height, escorted across the apron from our sealed kitchen run to the stand.
Do you deliver private jet catering to the FBOs and the GA terminal at CYEY?
Yes, by routing the same sealed cart used for airline flights to whichever FBO or the GA terminal the aircraft is parked at, with FBO catering logged on the same paperwork.
Can halal, kosher and IATA special meal codes be produced for flights through Amos?
Halal and kosher sets and the full range of SPML codes are produced on a dedicated line and documented per passenger before they leave the kitchen.
Amos — how much does airline catering cost at this station?
The tray sets and galley equipment used for the load are matched to the aircraft first, and the price follows from cabin count, specification and the loading window, with the desk returning a quotation rather than a published rate.
How far in advance does an order need to be placed at YEY, and how late can it still change?
YEY works to a lead time set at booking, with the specification able to move closer to departure than the base order can; the desk confirms both windows once the rotation is known.
Under what protocol are VIP, VVIP and government flights catered at CYEY?
There is a named, security-cleared team held for every government flight catering and VIP flight catering movement through this stand, working to a documented protocol file for each passenger.
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