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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — Winnipeg, Canada
Wide-body airline catering, VIP & private jet catering at Winnipeg (CYWG / YWG)
YWG (IATA) · CYWG (ICAO)
AERO GOURMET provides inflight catering, in-flight catering and aviation catering at Winnipeg (CYWG / YWG) across wide-body operations, matching the industrial capacity of an airline caterer to the execution a head of state or a private cabin expects. We do not deliver to the foot of the aircraft: every uplift boards by hi-loader to galley height, direct to the door, across scheduled, charter, VIP and government flights.
3,353 m
Longest runway
Wide-body
Largest aircraft handled
2
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 — Winnipeg
Hi-loader boarding for inflight catering at CYWG
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Inflight catering order window at Winnipeg airport
Aircraft catering handover at the galley door, Winnipeg
Ramp access is what the loading window at Winnipeg actually measures: the interval between the sealed cart leaving our kitchen and the same cart clearing the galley door on the apron at CYWG. Two runways and a wide-body reference code give the ramp room to stage a hi-loader beside a full-width aircraft without a second vehicle in the way, so the catering uplift moves in one pass rather than several partial ones. Every stage of that pass is logged against the loading sheet, not estimated after the fact.
Between our kitchen and the stand at Winnipeg sit screening, an escort through airside checkpoints, and the ordinary traffic of a working apron, and the convoy is the risk the plan is built around, not the food it carries. Chain of custody runs from the moment a cart is sealed at the kitchen door, through the escorted run to the aircraft, to the signature that closes the galley catering handover at CYWG. Temperature is logged at sealing and logged again at handover, so the record shows the cold chain held for the whole route rather than assuming it, and the catering uplift is signed off stand-side once the last cart is confirmed aboard.
One coordinator carries the load from our seal to the aircraft's signature.
Crew meals from the kitchen serving Winnipeg airport
Airline food supplier crews cleared for YWG
Airport catering at Winnipeg runs from a flight kitchen holding hot production, pastry, a cold larder and a protocol line under one roof, a working arrangement that keeps a wide-body rotation and a single-cabin uplift moving through the same building without either slowing the other. HACCP governs every stage of that production, from intake to the cold chain that carries tray sets to the ramp, so a delegation movement and a scheduled departure are held to the identical standard rather than two different ones. Airport catering at CYWG is planned this way because the two runways and the wide-body reference code mean full-width aircraft are the normal traffic, not the exception the kitchen has to stretch for.
Government flight catering at Winnipeg is handled by the same named team on every rotation, not a rotating pool assigned as availability allows. Each member carries a current security clearance, sits on the access list for the cleared production line, and is trained to the household service standards a protocol officer checks before a movement is confirmed. That continuity is the point: the paperwork travelling with a sealed uplift is signed by someone who has signed it before, at this station, under this chain of custody.
VIP flight catering and dietary sets at Winnipeg (YWG)
VVIP catering written per mission at CYWG
Per cabin, the inflight catering programme at Winnipeg is written to the mission first and the season second, so a scheduled multi-class rotation and a single VIP cabin draw from the same kitchen without sharing a menu. Local sourcing follows what the region actually produces across the prairie growing season: grain-fed proteins, dairy, orchard fruit and cold-water fish feature where a VIP flight menu or a charter flight menu calls for them, never as a fixed list repeated regardless of mission. Every set is written before it is plated, filed against a specification rather than improvised at the pass. Allergen, halal, kosher and medical requirements are documented per passenger and per cabin, labelled on the tray and matched against the same record that travels with the sealed uplift.
First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins at CYWG are plated to a written specification rather than to a standing menu, with caviar and à-la-carte service available on request for wide-body VIP flight catering. The presentation is filed against that specification before departure, so a repeat rotation is served the same way it was served the last time.
Business cabins
Business cabins at Winnipeg run on multi-choice hot service, built to oven-ready formats sized to the galley fitted to the aircraft rather than to a generic tray. Crew meals, cabin crew meals and pilot meals move in their own boxed sets, matched to the roster rather than the passenger count.
Protocol & dietary
Protocol and dietary requirements at YWG are documented per passenger before the flight, covering halal and kosher sets alongside the full range of special meal codes carried under the IATA SPML system. Inflight catering built to those codes is produced on a separate line and sealed there, so a household or medical requirement never crosses paths with the standard cabin 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
Cold chain and HACCP for aircraft catering at CYWG / YWG
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.
Airside airport catering at CYWG / YWG
Winnipeg carries a mixed traffic profile across two runways rated to a wide-body reference code, which means a scheduled multi-class rotation, a charter group movement and an occasional government flight share the same apron on a given day rather than being routed to separate infrastructure. That mix turns catering into three different problems at once: a delegation is a documentation problem, a peak departure wave is a capacity problem, and a repeat charter rotation is a consistency problem, and the same kitchen has to answer all three without missing a stand.
Aircraft catering at Winnipeg moves from our kitchen to the stand by hi-loader, boarding directly to the galley door rather than staging at the foot of the aircraft, with airport catering at CYWG planned stand by stand against the day's loading sheet. Airline catering at Winnipeg and aviation catering in Winnipeg run off the same ops desk, so a scheduled carrier and an ad hoc charter are worked from one duty roster rather than two.
What we commit to on this station is one coordinator per rotation, carts sealed at the kitchen and opened only at the aircraft, and a signed handover that closes the loop between our kitchen and the flight deck, matching in-flight catering in Winnipeg and inflight catering in Canada to the same written standard on every load.
Government, royal and charter flight catering at YWG
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Government and state flight catering at CYWG
A wide-body reference code sets the loading plan that a head of state movement is worked around, sequencing the stand assignment and the escort ahead of the aircraft's own arrival slot. Government flight catering at Winnipeg for state visits and official delegations runs on that same sequencing: protocol documented per passenger, security-cleared staff, and the uplift sealed before it leaves the kitchen.
Government & state flights →
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at YWG
Aerodrome reference code wide-body, which means a private airliner boards on the same stand infrastructure as a scheduled widebody rather than a smaller allocation elsewhere on the field. Royal flight catering and VVIP work for private airliners — BBJ, ACJ and wide-body VIP types — at Winnipeg is held to a written household specification kept on file between movements, with halal and household requirements produced on request at CYWG.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at Winnipeg
We stage a full three-cabin uplift against the loading sheet on the wide-body stands at Winnipeg, in the order the galleys are laid out rather than as a single bulk delivery. Charter flight catering at YWG and charter flight catering at CYWG cover ACMI and wet-lease operators, group movements and special missions on that same staged sequence.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at CYWG
Across the two runways rated to a wide-body reference code at Winnipeg, carriers running this station as an outstation draw on the same duty roster as a scheduled tenant. Ad hoc airline catering, outstation catering, diversion catering and technical stop catering at Winnipeg move off that roster, AOG included, with crew meals at YWG and crew meals at CYWG boxed to the roster across a multi-leg rotation.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at YWG
Two runways rated to a wide-body reference code give Winnipeg the ramp capacity to run business aviation alongside scheduled and charter traffic without a separate queue. Private jet catering at Winnipeg reaches the FBOs on the field and the GA terminal through our dedicated business aviation branch, delivered as FBO catering, business aviation catering and business jet catering on the same cold chain and the same paperwork as an airline uplift.
Private jets →
Charter flight catering reviewed at CYWG
Ops desks on aviation catering at Winnipeg airport
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
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Scheduled airline
“I asked for airline catering IATA standards at Winnipeg (YWG/CYWG) because we had limited time to reset the galley. Presentation stayed good while the setup remained practical for a fast aircraft turnaround. The crew appreciated how easy it was to load. The order was complete on arrival and easy for us to check before closing the doors.”
★★★★★Charter operator
Pierre — Cargo Station Manager
“For a changing schedule at Winnipeg (YWG/CYWG), we needed flexible tech stop. The uplift was organized around our revised departure and reached the aircraft without delaying the turn. Good support for a changing flight schedule. The order was complete on arrival and easy for us to check before closing the doors.”
★★★★★Scheduled airline
Boris — Trip Planning Manager
“We used the team for FBO catering at Winnipeg (YWG/CYWG) on a VIP trip. The food arrived fresh and well presented, with clear labels and packaging that actually worked in our galley. A very good experience from a flight attendant perspective. Updates were timely and the final delivery matched the confirmation we had from operations.”
★★★★☆Scheduled airline
Arthur — Operations Control Officer
Flight catering station reference for Winnipeg (CYWG / YWG)
| Datum | Value |
|---|---|
| Longest runway | 3,353 m |
| Runways | 2 |
| Aerodrome reference code | wide-body |
| ICAO | CYWG |
Business jet catering questions at Winnipeg (YWG)
Diversion catering and ramp questions at Winnipeg (YWG)
What operations gets asked every week about Winnipeg.
Ask operations directly →When can YWG handle VIP, VVIP and government flight catering, and under what protocol?
When a movement is confirmed, VIP flight catering and government flight catering at Winnipeg run under the same protocol file: security-cleared staff, a sealed uplift, and documentation carried per passenger rather than per flight.
Does CYWG require a fixed lead time for an order, and how late can the specification still change?
Every cabin specification is locked ahead of the loading window, but the tray count and dietary set inside it can still be revised up to that window; ask how far in advance your rotation needs to confirm to hold the earliest slot.
Which factors set the cost of airline catering in Winnipeg?
The loader, the route from our kitchen to the stand, and the cabin specification are what drive airline catering cost here; we do not publish a price list, and a quotation follows once cabin count and loading window are confirmed.
Where does private jet catering at Winnipeg reach the FBOs and the GA terminal on the field?
The handover record shows delivery to every FBO on the field and to the GA terminal, with FBO catering carried on the same cold chain and paperwork as a scheduled airline uplift.
What method moves airline catering airside at YWG, and how does the uplift reach the aircraft?
We load by hi-loader straight to the galley door, so airside delivery never stages at the foot of the aircraft the way a ground trolley would.
Are halal, kosher and the IATA special meal codes produced for flights at CYWG, and how are they documented?
The coordinator on duty documents every halal, kosher and SPML request per passenger, with special meals produced on a separate line and sealed before they join the main uplift.
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