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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — Trois-Rivières, Canada
Airline catering, VIP and private jet catering at Trois-Rivières (CYRQ / YRQ)
YRQ (IATA) · CYRQ (ICAO)
A wide-body reference code at Trois-Rivières means a hi-loader has to reach galley height before a single tray moves, so boarding is sequenced from the ramp rather than staged at the foot of the aircraft. AERO GOURMET runs inflight catering, in-flight catering and aviation catering here for scheduled, charter, VIP, government and private jet flights, with uplift loaded straight through the galley door.
2,745 m
Longest runway
Wide-body
Largest aircraft handled
1
Runways
1
FBO on station
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 — Trois-Rivières
Hi-loader boarding for inflight catering at YRQ
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Airport catering order window at Trois-Rivières, Canada
Aviation catering from sealed cart to galley door at CYRQ / YRQ
Ramp access at Trois-Rivières sets the pace of the loading window, since the hi-loader cannot reach the galley door until the apron sequence clears it for approach. Every cart leaving our kitchen is timed against that sequence rather than against a fixed clock, so the window is measured stand by stand, not quoted as a flat promise. A catering uplift only starts once the apron slot is confirmed, which keeps the cold chain intact from seal to handover.
Between our kitchen and the stand at Trois-Rivières sit screening, escort and the ordinary traffic of the apron, and a catering uplift is planned against the worst of those, not the best. Chain of custody runs from the seal placed on the cart at the kitchen to the signature taken at the galley door, with nothing handled outside that record. Temperatures are logged twice, once at sealing and once at handover, and the galley catering that reaches the aircraft carries both readings against its own load sheet.
One seal, one signature, one route from our kitchen to your galley door.
Crew meals and pilot meals for Trois-Rivières airport departures
Airline food supplier crews cleared for Trois-Rivières (YRQ)
Inside the flight kitchen at Trois-Rivières, hot production, pastry, a cold larder and a protocol line sit under one roof, which is what lets a single facility serve a scheduled rotation and a sealed VIP uplift on the same afternoon. Airport catering at Trois-Rivières runs to HACCP across every one of those lines, with the cold chain held from the moment a tray is plated to the moment it clears the galley door. Airport catering in Canada is judged on that same standard, and this kitchen is built to hold it without a second facility on standby.
Government flight catering at CYRQ is handled by the same named team on every rotation, not a rotating pool drawn in as volume requires. Each member carries security clearance on file, sits on the access list for this station, and is trained to the household service standards a protocol desk expects before it will release a delegation's specification. That team also carries the paperwork that travels with a sealed uplift, so custody never passes to a driver or a handler outside the record.
Halal airline meals and special meals at Trois-Rivières
VVIP catering to a written specification at Trois-Rivières, Canada
Menus at Trois-Rivières are written to the cabin first and the mission second, so a scheduled rotation and a sealed VIP departure are never worked from the same fixed card. Where local sourcing is named, it stays general — dairy, orchard fruit, cold-water fish sourced within Canada rather than a dish tied to one supplier. Inflight catering in Trois-Rivières closes on documentation rather than presentation: allergen sets, halal and kosher options and medical requirements are labelled per passenger and per cabin before the cart is sealed. Nothing leaves the kitchen without that label attached to the load sheet.
First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins at Trois-Rivières are plated to a written specification rather than a fixed card, with caviar and à-la-carte service available on request. VIP flight catering here is filed against the standing order for that airframe, so a repeat rotation is served to the same standard each time.
Business cabins
Business cabins at YRQ take multi-choice hot service built to oven-ready formats sized to the aircraft's own galley, boarded in tray sets rather than plated individually. Cabin crew meals and pilot meals travel in the same load as crew meals for the cabin team, each boxed to the roster and sealed before dispatch.
Protocol & dietary
Household, religious and medical requirements are documented per passenger at Trois-Rivières, produced on a line kept separate from the main run and sealed before it leaves that line. Halal and kosher sets are prepared to order, and the full range of IATA special meal codes is worked from that same documentation, which is how inflight catering here keeps a delegation's dietary file intact from kitchen to cabin.
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 Trois-Rivières, 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 CYRQ
Trois-Rivières carries scheduled, charter and government traffic across a single wide-body reference code, which means a delegation movement and a repeat charter rotation are worked from the same stand rather than from separate infrastructure. That mix makes catering here as much a documentation exercise as a production one: a government movement needs its protocol file closed before departure, and a repeat rotation needs the same specification held week after week rather than redrawn each time.
Uplift leaves our kitchen by sealed cart and reaches the aircraft by hi-loader, boarded directly to the galley door rather than handed off at the foot of the stairs. A loading coordinator works the stand for the full cycle, from cart arrival to signed handover, with airside delivery timed against the apron sequence rather than a fixed clock.
On every rotation through this stand we commit to one coordinator, sealed carts and a signed handover, so airline catering, inflight catering, in-flight catering and aviation catering in Canada are answerable to the same record whether the flight is scheduled, chartered or state.
Aviation catering for five mission types at YRQ
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Government and state flight catering at Trois-Rivières
Our kitchen files a closed protocol record against every delegation movement that crosses the wide-body stand at Trois-Rivières, before the aircraft is scheduled to arrive. Government flight catering here covers state visits and official delegations, with a head of state aircraft handled to the same sealed-uplift standard as any other cleared movement.
Government & state flights →
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at CYRQ
A 2,745-metre runway supports the private airliners this segment brings through Trois-Rivières, from BBJ and ACJ conversions to wide-body VIP configurations on repeat rotation. Royal flight catering and VVIP work here are held to a written household specification kept on file between movements, with halal and household dietary requirements produced on request.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at YRQ
A wide-body movement boards here across three full cabins rather than a single-class layout, which is what a charter, ACMI or wet-lease operator needs from a stand built for group traffic. Charter flight catering at Trois-Rivières covers special missions and group movements, counted against the loading sheet the same way whether the flight is a one-off or the third of a season, and charter flight catering in Trois-Rivières keeps that count consistent leg to leg.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at Trois-Rivières
The 2,745-metre runway at Trois-Rivières takes a wide-body on a scheduled or diverted rotation, which is what lets carriers run this station as an outstation rather than a one-off stop. Outstation catering and diversion catering are worked from the same duty roster as technical stop catering, ad hoc airline catering included, across a multi-leg rotation without a second kitchen standing by.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at CYRQ
On the same wide-body reference code that serves the main apron at Trois-Rivières, business aviation traffic is worked through the FBOs on the field and the GA terminal rather than a separate operation. Private jet catering in Trois-Rivières runs through our dedicated branch, with FBO catering held to the same cold chain and paperwork as a scheduled airline uplift.
Private jets →
FBOs at Trois-Rivières
cjet aviation
Charter flight catering reviewed at Trois-Rivières, Canada
Flight departments on jet catering at CYRQ / YRQ
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
Scheduled airline
“For a government operation through Trois-Rivières (YRQ/CYRQ), we required discreet presidential flight catering. The team understood the need for confidentiality and kept the order organized despite late passenger and dietary changes. We would trust the team again for a similar movement. Responses were quick whenever we had a question, which helped us keep the flight on schedule.”
★★★★★Scheduled airline
Rafael — Operations Desk Coordinator
“For a VIP rotation through Trois-Rivières (YRQ/CYRQ), we used the team for VIP airliner catering. Everything arrived neatly packed, easy to identify in the galley, and consistent with the presentation we requested. Good quality and very practical for onboard service. Responses were quick whenever we had a question, which helped us keep the flight on schedule.”
★★★★☆Scheduled airline
Liam — OCC Coordinator
“For a high-volume passenger flight at Trois-Rivières (YRQ/CYRQ), we needed reliable umrah flight catering. Packaging was practical for the cabin and the uplift arrived in good order for departure. We would use the service again for a similar charter. The order was complete on arrival and easy for us to check before closing the doors.”
★★★★★Private jet operator
Julien — Client Services Manager
Airport catering profile for Trois-Rivières (CYRQ / YRQ)
| Datum | Value |
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| Longest runway | 2,745 m |
| Runways | 1 |
| Aerodrome reference code | wide-body |
| ICAO | CYRQ |
Aircraft catering questions at Trois-Rivières (YRQ)
Diversion catering and ramp questions at Trois-Rivières
What operations gets asked every week about Trois-Rivières.
Ask operations directly →Where does the lead time start for an order placed at Trois-Rivières airport?
It starts against the confirmation on file with our ops desk, and how far in advance you should place it depends on cabin count and specification; last-minute airline catering is worked case by case rather than refused outright.
Which route do you use to reach the FBOs and the GA terminal at YRQ?
The same hi-loader and sealed-cart route used for the main apron carries private jet catering to the FBOs on the field, so FBO catering runs on the identical cold chain as a scheduled uplift.
When are halal, kosher and the IATA special meal codes produced for a flight through CYRQ?
Once the passenger's dietary file is confirmed, halal and kosher sets and any SPML code are produced on a separate line and sealed before they join the main load; special meals are documented per passenger, not per flight.
How is airline catering cost worked out for a flight through Trois-Rivières?
Airline catering cost depends on cabin count, the specification chosen and the loading window requested, since no fixed price list is published; our desk returns a quotation once those details are confirmed.
What protocol governs VIP, VVIP and government flight catering at Trois-Rivières airport?
We handle VIP flight catering and government flight catering under a sealed chain of custody, with a cleared team, documented protocol and a signed handover at the galley door on every movement.
Commercial aviation catering near Trois-Rivières
YHU / CYHU
Montréal
Canada · 109 km from Trois-Rivières
Airline & VIP flight catering →
YQB / CYQB
Quebec
Canada · 110 km from Trois-Rivières
Airline & VIP flight catering →
ZBM / CZBM
Bromont
Canada · 118 km from Trois-Rivières
Airline & VIP flight catering →
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Uplift at Trois-Rivières (YRQ)