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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — Charlottetown, Canada
Charlottetown (CYYG / YYG): airline catering, VIP flight catering and private jet catering
YYG (IATA) · CYYG (ICAO)
Two runways and a narrow-body reference code set the traffic this station moves through Charlottetown, and inflight catering here is planned around that mix rather than around wide-body volume. AERO GOURMET runs in-flight catering from one ops desk for scheduled, charter, VIP, government and private jet movements, with uplift boarded airside on the same cold chain from kitchen to galley door.
2,134 m
Longest runway
Narrow-body
Largest aircraft handled
2
Runways
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FBO on station
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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 — Charlottetown
Inflight catering at wide-body scale for Charlottetown, Canada
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Aircraft catering lead times at CYYG / YYG
Aviation catering from sealed cart to galley door at Charlottetown (YYG)
Between the sealed cart leaving our kitchen and the signature at the galley door, the catering uplift at Charlottetown runs against a fixed sequence rather than a guess. Ramp access is held on our own badges, so the convoy crosses the apron on a route agreed with the handling agent rather than a queue behind other traffic. What the timeline below shows is that sequence, timed stage by stage, not an estimate rounded up for comfort.
The convoy is the risk on this ramp, not the food: between our kitchen and the stand at Charlottetown sit screening, an escort and apron traffic, and the catering uplift is planned against the worst of those three rather than the best. Chain of custody runs from the seal at the kitchen to the signature at the galley, with nothing handed off in between that is not logged. Temperatures are read at sealing and read again at handover, and the galley catering that leaves our kitchen only clears the door once both readings and the signature agree.
One seal at the kitchen, one signature at the door, nothing in between goes unlogged.
Crew meals from the kitchen serving Charlottetown
Airline food supplier crews cleared for Charlottetown, Canada
Airport catering at Charlottetown is provisioned from one production kitchen rather than a network of subcontractors, so the same hot line, pastry section and cold larder that build a scheduled tray build a government one. That kitchen runs to HACCP, with the cold chain held from the moment a tray is closed to the moment it is sealed into a cart. Airport catering in Charlottetown and the flight kitchen at YYG answer to the same production line whatever the mission on the stand.
The team that handles government flight catering at Charlottetown is the same named crew on every rotation, not a rotating pool drawn in for the day. Security clearance is held on file and checked against the access list before any cart moves, and the same crew is trained to household service standards for the movements that need them. That continuity is what keeps a sealed uplift and its paperwork accountable to one desk, on catering at CYYG.
VIP flight catering and dietary sets at YYG
Commercial aviation catering written per cabin at CYYG / YYG
Menus at Charlottetown are written to the cabin and the mission first, and only then to the season: a First and VVIP tray is built to a different brief than a Business or main-cabin one, and both move off the same production line. Canadian dairy, seafood and orchard produce feature where the season allows it, without naming a dish or a source the kitchen has not confirmed for that rotation. Inflight catering here is documented per passenger for allergen, halal, kosher and medical sets, labelled and checked against the manifest before it is sealed. The specification travels with the cart, not with a verbal note to the crew.
First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins at Charlottetown carry VIP flight catering plated to a written specification, with caviar and à-la-carte service available on request. Every course is filed against the standing order for the rotation, at YYG, before it leaves the kitchen.
Business cabins
Business cabins at CYYG run a multi-choice hot service in oven-ready formats sized to the galley fitted to the aircraft. Crew meals, cabin crew meals and pilot meals are boxed separately to the roster and loaded alongside the passenger tray sets at Charlottetown.
Protocol & dietary
Protocol and dietary requirements at YYG are documented per passenger, covering halal and kosher sets and the full range of IATA special meal codes. Each set is produced on a separate line and sealed before it joins the main inflight catering load.
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 records for aviation catering at CYYG
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 Charlottetown airport
Two runways and a narrow-body reference code shape the traffic Charlottetown handles, a mix of scheduled, charter and occasional government movements rather than a steady wide-body wave. That profile makes documentation the recurring problem on this stand: a delegation or a diplomatic movement needs its protocol file matched to the manifest before the seal is broken, more often than it needs raw capacity.
The uplift reaches the aircraft by cart from our kitchen, escorted across the apron to the stand under ramp access held on our own badges, with the ground handling agent coordinating the final approach to the aircraft door. Airline catering and airport catering at Charlottetown run off that same route regardless of the cabin mix on a given rotation, and aviation catering here is planned against the escort window rather than against the clock alone.
One coordinator carries the rotation from seal to signature, with sealed carts and a signed handover closing every load, whether it is inflight catering or in-flight catering in Canada that leaves the kitchen that day.
Airline, charter and VVIP catering at Charlottetown, Canada
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Government and state flight catering at Charlottetown
Two runways serve Charlottetown, and that gives a delegation movement a second approach to hold in reserve rather than one committed slot. Government flight catering here covers state visits and head of state movements with the 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 CYYG
Our kitchen holds a narrow-body reference code specification on file between movements, so a repeat rotation is worked to the same household brief every time rather than rebuilt from scratch. Royal flight catering at Charlottetown covers private airliners, BBJ and ACJ types among them, with halal and household dietary requirements produced to that standing file on request.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at YYG
Narrow-body is the reference code Charlottetown is built to, and a group charter working within it is loaded to the same full three-cabin standard as any scheduled rotation. Charter flight catering at YYG serves ACMI and wet-lease operators, group movements and special missions, counted against the loading sheet and staged in the order the galleys are laid out; charter flight catering in Charlottetown never drops that count for a one-off movement.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at Charlottetown
A 2134 m runway sets a working ceiling on what diverts into Charlottetown, and that ceiling is what a duty roster plans around before anything else. Ad hoc airline catering at YYG covers carriers running this station as an outstation, with outstation catering, diversion catering and crew meals at YYG held on the same duty roster; technical stop catering and AOG sit alongside crew meals in Canada across a multi-leg rotation, and ad hoc catering at YYG moves on the same tray standard whichever leg it lands on.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at CYYG
A narrow-body reference code still clears the business jets that route through the GA terminal at Charlottetown, and that traffic is handled by our dedicated private jet catering branch. Delivery goes to the FBOs on the field and the GA terminal, on the same cold chain and the same paperwork as private jet catering at CYYG for an airline uplift.
Private jets →
FBOs at Charlottetown
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Charter flight catering reviewed at CYYG / YYG
Protocol officers on government flight catering at Charlottetown
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
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Scheduled airline
“We needed presidential flight catering at Charlottetown (YYG/CYYG) for a protocol-sensitive flight. Communication was discreet, changes were handled calmly, and the delivery was coordinated exactly within the agreed window. We would trust the team again for a similar movement. From an operational point of view, the service was easy to manage and required very little follow-up.”
★★★★☆Scheduled airline
Florian — Station Services Coordinator
“For a VIP rotation through Charlottetown (YYG/CYYG), we used the team for wide body VIP aircraft catering. The portions, packaging, and labeling worked well for the cabin, and the timing was spot on. Exactly the level of detail we expect for VIP flying. From an operational point of view, the service was easy to manage and required very little follow-up.”
★★★★★Private jet operator
Rami — VIP Trip Manager
“We booked hajj flight catering at Charlottetown (YYG/CYYG) for a large group departure. Packaging was practical for the cabin and the uplift arrived in good order for departure. A dependable choice for group charter operations. The order was complete on arrival and easy for us to check before closing the doors.”
★★★★☆Charter operator
Sophie — Flight Operations Specialist
Charlottetown (CYYG / YYG): airport catering data
| Datum | Value |
|---|---|
| Longest runway | 2,134 m |
| Runways | 2 |
| Aerodrome reference code | narrow-body |
| ICAO | CYYG |
Business jet catering questions at YYG
Diversion catering and ramp questions at YYG
What operations gets asked every week about Charlottetown.
Ask operations directly →On the ramp at Charlottetown, do you deliver private jet catering to the FBOs and the GA terminal on the field?
There is coverage across every FBO on the field and the GA terminal, with FBO catering delivered on the same cold chain and paperwork as an airline uplift.
Do you produce halal, kosher and the IATA special meal codes at Charlottetown Airport?
Yes, produced on a separate line and documented per passenger, covering halal, kosher and the full range of SPML special meal codes against the manifest.
At which point does airline catering reach the aircraft airside at YYG?
The sequence starts at the sealed cart leaving our kitchen, moves by escort across the apron, and finishes with hi-loader boarding to the galley door.
How far does airline catering cost vary at CYYG, given no published price list?
The figure rests on the cabin count, the specification and the loading window booked for the rotation, and the desk returns a quotation against those three.
Can an order still change close to departure out of Charlottetown?
Lead time depends on the cabin mix, but how far in advance the base order is placed decides how late a specification change can still be worked, right up to last minute airline catering on a diversion.
Inflight catering at other airports near Charlottetown
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Airline & VIP flight catering →
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Airline & VIP flight catering →
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