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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — Pococi, Costa Rica
Pococi (MRBC / BCL): airline catering, VIP flight catering and private jet catering
BCL (IATA) · MRBC (ICAO)
At a station built around a 1000 metre runway, aircraft provisioning is planned around the reference aircraft this length admits, with every load staged for a fast, single-pass turnaround. Inflight catering here runs from a sealed kitchen to the galley door by hi-loader, so a wide-body diversion, an in-flight catering order from a charter desk, or a routine uplift all board the same way, on the same ramp, within the same window.
1,000 m
Longest runway
Narrow-body
Largest aircraft handled
1
Runways
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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 — Pococi
Wide-body aviation catering at Pococi (BCL)
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Inflight catering order window for MRBC / BCL departures
Aviation catering from sealed cart to galley door at Pococi (BCL)
Every catering uplift at Pococi starts on a sealed cart, moved under escort across the apron to the aircraft stand and handed over against a signed sheet. Ramp access is held on our own clearance, not requested per flight, so the convoy does not wait on a separate pass at the gate. That single point of custody is what keeps a narrow-body turnaround, a charter rotation and a diplomatic movement on the same measured route from kitchen to stand.
The convoy is the exposure, not the food, so we plan the route between kitchen and stand at MRBC against the worst of it: apron traffic, a security screening point, and the escort required to cross both. Each cart is sealed at the kitchen door and the seal is checked again at handover, with the temperature logged at both ends and matched against the standing specification for that galley catering run. Chain of custody at Pococi runs on one signature per cart, so a delegation flight and a scheduled service leave the same paper trail behind them, and nothing that clears the kitchen door travels unaccounted for.
One sealed cart, one signature, from the kitchen door to the galley.
Crew meals and pilot meals for Pococi departures
Cargo crew meals produced to the same standard at Pococi, Costa Rica
Airport catering at Pococi is built to run hot production, pastry, a cold larder and a protocol line under one roof, so a single facility carries a scheduled rotation and a government movement without splitting the output across sites. HACCP governs every line in that kitchen, from the raw intake to the sealed cart, which is what lets airport catering here serve a narrow-body turnaround and a VIP charter to the same documented standard. That structure is what a flight kitchen at BCL is built to hold, whatever the mix of traffic on a given day.
Government flight catering at Pococi is worked by the same named team on every rotation, not a rotating pool drawn in for the day. Each member holds a standing security clearance, sits on the access list for the kitchen and the apron, and is trained to the household and protocol standards that travel with a sealed uplift. That continuity is what lets a repeat delegation movement through MRBC be handled by people who already know the paperwork, not by whoever is on shift.
VIP flight catering and dietary sets at BCL
Royal flight catering standards per cabin at MRBC / BCL
Menus at Pococi are built to the cabin and the mission first, then adjusted to season, so a scheduled service, a charter rotation and a VIP flight menu draw from the same kitchen without sharing a single fixed set. Costa Rica's produce runs through the specification where it fits the season: dairy, tropical fruit, fish landed on the coast, worked into a charter flight menu or a standard rotation alike. Every dietary set is documented per passenger and per cabin before it leaves the kitchen, so allergen, halal and kosher requirements travel with the flight rather than being resolved at the door. That documentation is also what keeps inflight catering repeatable across weeks of menu cycles at MRBC, even as the specification itself changes.
First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins at Pococi are plated to a written specification rather than a fixed menu, with à-la-carte and caviar service available on request against that standing order. VIP flight catering here is filed and reproduced flight to flight, so a repeat rotation is served to the same standard each time, not reinvented at the stand.
Business cabins
Business cabins at BCL run on multi-choice hot service, built into oven-ready formats sized to the galley fitted to the aircraft on the stand. Crew meals, cabin crew meals and pilot meals are boxed separately to the roster, so tray sets for passengers and crew meal boxes for the flight deck leave the kitchen on the same cart without mixing.
Protocol & dietary
Protocol and dietary requirements at MRBC are documented per passenger before the flight, covering household and religious sets, halal and kosher meals, and the full range of IATA special meal codes. Every SPML order is produced on a separate line and sealed before it leaves that line, so inflight catering for one passenger with a medical or religious requirement never shares a surface 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
HACCP-compliant aircraft catering at BCL
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.
Catering uplift coordination at MRBC
A narrow-body reference code and a single runway set the pattern at Pococi: traffic here moves in discrete rotations rather than overlapping banks, so a delegation arrival reads as a documentation task and a charter departure reads as a capacity task, each planned on its own timeline rather than squeezed against a wave of others. That separation is what airport catering at MRBC is built around, and it is also what keeps aviation catering in Costa Rica predictable at a field this size.
The uplift itself travels a fixed route from our kitchen to the single stand, sealed cart to hi-loader, with our own crew on the ramp from the kitchen door to the handover. Ground handling on the apron coordinates the timing, but the load itself does not leave our custody at any point on that route, which is what in-flight catering in Pococi is measured against on every rotation. Airline catering in Pococi and inflight catering at BCL both run off that same single ops desk, so a scheduled carrier and a private movement are worked by the same team rather than two separate operations.
On every flight through this station, one coordinator owns the load from seal to signature, and the handover is signed, not assumed.
Scheduled, charter and VVIP catering at Pococi (BCL)
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Government and state flight catering at Pococi
The runway here runs to 1000 metres, which sets the narrow-body reference aircraft this field takes and, with it, the scale of movement a delegation flight arrives on. Government flight catering at MRBC is built around that scale: protocol documented per passenger, security-cleared staff on the access list, and every head of state movement sealed at the kitchen before the cart reaches the stand.
Government & state flights →
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at MRBC
Our kitchen holds one written household specification on file between movements, built to the narrow-body reference code this field is certified to, so a repeat rotation is served to the same standard whether it lands this month or next. We provision private airliners at that scale — BBJ, ACJ and comparable VIP configurations — with royal flight catering built around a royal household's own dietary file, halal sets included on request.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at BCL
Narrow-body aircraft move through Pococi on a single stand, which sets the pace charter flight catering here is planned against: one loading sheet, one turnaround, no overlap with a second movement. ACMI and wet-lease operators, group charters and special missions all draw the same full cabin uplift, staged in the order the galleys are laid out, so charter flight catering at Pococi runs to one standard whatever the operator on the tail.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at Pococi
A single runway and one narrow-body stand mean every rotation through Pococi is sequenced rather than run in parallel, so ad hoc airline catering has to slot into a fixed order rather than a flexible bank. Carriers running BCL as an outstation draw on the same duty roster for outstation catering, diversion catering and technical stop catering, AOG included, across a multi-leg pattern that never doubles up on the single stand.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at MRBC
A narrow-body reference code at this field also covers the business jets and VIP-configured aircraft that share its single stand, so private jet catering at MRBC is boarded by the same crew and the same cart discipline as a scheduled rotation. Delivery reaches the FBOs on the field and the GA terminal directly, on the same cold chain and the same paperwork as any other uplift here.
Private jets →
Charter flight catering trusted by operators at Pococi, Costa Rica
Operators on commercial aviation catering at Pococi
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
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Scheduled airline
“For a last-minute requirement at Pococi (BCL/MRBC), we contacted them as our airline catering partner. 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
Andres — Airport Services Coordinator
“Our team needed private jet catering in Pococi for a short-notice flight at BCL/MRBC. Everything arrived fresh, well presented, and easy for the cabin crew to organize before boarding. I would use them again for another flight from Pococi. The final handover was simple and there was nothing for the crew to correct before departure.”
★★★★☆Scheduled airline
Liam — Station Operations Supervisor
“I requested halal airline meals for passengers departing Pococi (BCL/MRBC) and the labeling was excellent. Each item was clearly identified, separated from the standard meals, and easy to check before boarding. A good experience with complex dietary requests. The final handover was simple and there was nothing for the crew to correct before departure.”
★★★★★Private jet operator
Ibrahim — Cabin Operations Lead
Airport catering data for Pococi (MRBC / BCL)
| Datum | Value |
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| Longest runway | 1,000 m |
| Runways | 1 |
| Aerodrome reference code | narrow-body |
| ICAO | MRBC |
Outstation catering questions at BCL
Diversion catering and ramp questions at BCL
What operations gets asked every week about Pococi.
Ask operations directly →How does Pococi handle VIP, VVIP and government flight catering, and under what protocol?
Pococi runs VIP flight catering and government flight catering through the same cleared team on every rotation, with the protocol file documented per passenger and the uplift sealed before it leaves the kitchen.
Which halal, kosher and special meal codes does MRBC produce, and how are they documented?
A dedicated cart and a separate production line carry every halal, kosher and IATA special meal code order, tracked by SPML and documented per passenger before the cart reaches the stand.
Can you tell me what airline catering costs at BCL?
The quote turns on cabin count, the specification chosen and the loading window requested, since airline catering cost here is not published as a fixed list; our desk returns a quote once those are set.
What does MRBC offer for private jet catering to the FBOs and the GA terminal on the field?
We deliver private jet catering and FBO catering directly to the GA terminal and every FBO on the field, on the same cold chain and paperwork as a scheduled uplift.
Do you deliver airline catering airside at Pococi, and how does the uplift reach the aircraft?
Yes, by hi-loader from a sealed cart straight to the galley door, with airside delivery covering the whole route from kitchen to stand under one escort.
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