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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — Hamilton, Canada
Airside airline catering, VIP & private jet catering at Hamilton (CYHM / YHM)
YHM (IATA) · CYHM (ICAO)
A wide-body aerodrome reference code and two runways up to 3,050 metres let Hamilton take the widest airframes flying VIP, government and charter missions, and AERO GOURMET boards them directly from the ramp. Inflight catering here moves by hi-loader to galley height rather than to the foot of the stairs, with in-flight catering staged from a kitchen sized to that same uplift.
3,050 m
Longest runway
Wide-body
Largest aircraft handled
2
Runways
2
FBOs 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 — Hamilton
Inflight catering loaded to galley height at Hamilton
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Aircraft catering lead times at CYHM
Aviation catering from sealed cart to galley door at Hamilton
Ramp access governs every uplift at Hamilton, and the sequence from our kitchen door to the galley is worked to a fixed order rather than a guess. Each cart clears its own checkpoint on the apron before it reaches the aircraft, and the catering uplift only moves once that step is signed off. What the timeline records is the handling, not an estimate of it.
Between our kitchen and the stand at Hamilton sit screening, an escort and apron traffic, and none of the three are treated as background noise on a catering uplift. We plan the route against the worst of them, holding the chain of custody from the seal at the kitchen to the signature at the galley door. Temperatures are logged when the cart is sealed and again at handover, so galley catering arrives with a record attached rather than a promise.
One sealed cart, one signature, from our kitchen door to the galley.
Crew meals from the kitchen serving Hamilton airport
Airline food supplier crews cleared for YHM
Airport catering at Hamilton runs from a kitchen built around hot production, pastry, a cold larder and a protocol line under one roof, rather than from a single prep bench pushed to meet a schedule. That structure is what lets airport catering scale from a routine rotation to a full wide-body load without changing the standard applied to either. Every batch leaving the flight kitchen at YHM is produced and held to HACCP, the same discipline whether the tray is a main-cabin box or a household specification.
The team assigned to government flight catering at Hamilton is the same named crew across rotations, not a rota drawn fresh each time. Every member holds security clearance on file, sits on the access list for airside work, and is trained to the paperwork that has to travel sealed with a household or state uplift. That continuity is what a protocol desk is actually checking when it asks who will be handling the load.
VIP flight catering and dietary sets at Hamilton (YHM)
Royal flight catering standards per cabin at CYHM
Aircraft cleared for wide-body work at Hamilton carry three distinct cabins, and the menu written for each one follows the mission rather than a single fixed carte. Local sourcing draws on the dairy, fish and orchard produce of the surrounding region where the route allows it, worked into a specification rather than a set dish. Inflight catering at Hamilton is documented meal by meal: allergen sets, halal and kosher requirements, and medical diets are each labelled per passenger and per cabin before the cart is sealed. That documentation travels with the load, not as an afterthought to it.
First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins at Hamilton are plated to a written specification, with caviar and à-la-carte service available on request rather than fixed to a single set course. VIP flight catering here is filed against the standing order, so the presentation is repeatable rotation after rotation.
Business cabins
Business cabins at YHM take multi-choice hot service in galley-ready tray sets, sized to the fitted galley rather than adapted after the fact. Crew meals, cabin crew meals and pilot meals are boxed separately to the roster, keeping flight crew provisioning apart from the passenger load.
Protocol & dietary
Household, religious and medical requirements at CYHM are documented per passenger rather than grouped into a single generic set. Halal and kosher meals, along with the full range of special meal codes under SPML, are produced on a separate line and sealed before inflight catering leaves the kitchen for the stand.
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 Hamilton (YHM)
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 CYHM / YHM
Wide-body traffic through Hamilton mixes scheduled rotations, charter movements and government flights, and that mix sets three different problems for catering rather than one: a delegation is a documentation problem, a peak wave is a capacity problem, and a repeat rotation is a repetition problem the specification has to survive unchanged. Airline catering at CYHM is planned against whichever of the three the day's schedule actually presents.
The uplift itself moves from our kitchen to the ramp on sealed carts, cleared through the airside checkpoint before it reaches the wide-body stand, with our own loading crew present for the hi-loader lift to galley height. Aviation catering at CYHM does not stop at the foot of the aircraft; the cart goes on board, and the crew that sealed it is the crew that hands it over. Airport catering at Hamilton is coordinated by one desk regardless of which segment is flying that day.
On every rotation the commitment is the same: one coordinator named to the load, carts sealed before they leave the kitchen, and a signed handover at the galley door, whether the flight is in-flight catering at Hamilton for a scheduled carrier or inflight catering in Canada for a state movement.
VVIP catering and commercial flights at YHM
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Government and state flight catering at Hamilton
A 3,050 metre runway at Hamilton takes the aircraft that carry delegations, state visits and official movements without restricting the load they can board with. Government flight catering here runs on a protocol file documented per passenger, security-cleared staff on the access list, and a head of state aircraft sealed before it leaves our kitchen.
Government & state flights →
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at CYHM
Private airliners built to a wide-body cabin standard, BBJ and ACJ conversions among them, are what a 3,050 metre runway at Hamilton is built to receive without compromise on load. Royal flight catering at YHM holds household standards across repeat rotations, from a written specification kept on file between movements, with halal and household requirements produced on request.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at YHM
At Hamilton, a 3,050 metre runway carries the full range of charter movements a wide-body stand is built to take, from single rotations to sustained group work. Charter flight catering here serves ACMI and wet-lease operators, group movements and special missions alike, with a full three-cabin uplift counted against the loading sheet for every charter flight catering rotation at CYHM.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at Hamilton
A wide-body aerodrome reference code at Hamilton means our kitchen carries the tray standard for a full three-cabin load year round, not just for a scheduled peak. Carriers running YHM as an outstation draw on that same standard for ad hoc airline catering, outstation catering, diversion catering and technical stop catering, AOG included, across a multi-leg rotation, with crew meals and pilot meals boxed separately at CYHM to the roster.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at CYHM
Sequencing a private aircraft's uplift around a wide-body reference code means working to the smaller aircraft's own turnaround rather than the field's largest movement, and that is the constraint our loading plan is built around at Hamilton. Business aviation here is handled by our dedicated private jet catering branch, delivered to the FBOs on the field and the GA terminal on the same cold chain and paperwork as an airline uplift, with FBO catering and business aviation catering held to the identical specification used for business jet catering in Canada.
Private jets →
FBOs at Hamilton
jetport
onward aviation
Inflight catering rated by operators at YHM
Operators on commercial aviation catering at Hamilton airport
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
Scheduled airline
“We needed an airline catering partner at Hamilton (YHM/CYHM) and the support was excellent. One contact handled the order from confirmation through delivery, which saved our dispatch team a lot of follow-up. Very convenient for operational coverage. The final handover was simple and there was nothing for the crew to correct before departure.”
★★★★★Scheduled airline
Julien — Airline Operations Controller
“We booked VIP flight catering in Hamilton for a flight operating through YHM/CYHM. Everything arrived fresh, well presented, and easy for the cabin crew to organize before boarding. I would use them again for another flight from Hamilton. The final handover was simple and there was nothing for the crew to correct before departure.”
★★★★☆Private jet operator
Haris — VIP Trip Manager
“For our flight from Hamilton (YHM/CYHM), the cabin order included multiple special meal codes. All requirements were followed and the cabin crew could see immediately which meal belonged to which passenger. Very reassuring for the cabin crew. Updates were timely and the final delivery matched the confirmation we had from operations.”
★★★★★Charter operator
Klara — Operations Controller
Airport catering data for Hamilton (CYHM / YHM)
| Datum | Value |
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| Longest runway | 3,050 m |
| Runways | 2 |
| Aerodrome reference code | wide-body |
| ICAO | CYHM |
Business jet catering questions at Hamilton (YHM)
Technical stop catering questions at Hamilton (YHM)
What operations gets asked every week about Hamilton.
Ask operations directly →How does CYHM handle VIP, VVIP and government flight catering, and under what protocol?
CYHM is worked under the same protocol for every sealed uplift: VIP flight catering and government flight catering both run on a documented specification, security-cleared staff and a signed handover at the aircraft.
When does an order need to be placed for a Hamilton rotation, and how late can the specification change?
When a rotation is confirmed, our desk opens a loading window against it, and while last minute airline catering can be accommodated on short notice, the earlier the cabin count and specification are fixed the fewer changes have to be worked into the loading window.
Can you tell me how much airline catering costs at Hamilton Airport?
How much a quotation comes to depends on the cabin count, the specification and the loading window requested, since airline catering cost is never published as a flat figure; our desk returns a quotation once those three are known.
What private jet catering do you deliver to the FBOs at YHM?
We deliver to every FBO on the field and the GA terminal alike, so private jet catering at YHM runs on the same cold chain and the same paperwork as an airline uplift, with FBO catering handled by category rather than by account.
Do you deliver airline catering airside at CYHM, and how does the uplift reach the aircraft?
Yes, by hi-loader: airline catering at CYHM is boarded directly to galley height rather than left at the foot of the stairs, with airside delivery carried out by our own cleared loading crew.
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Charter flight catering quote for CYHM / YHM
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Hamilton (YHM / CYHM)
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Four steps
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Aircraft · stand · local time
Offloading
Return leg, if any
Order
Counts · menus · files
Contact
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Uplift at Hamilton (YHM)