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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — San José, Costa Rica
Wide-body airline catering, VIP flight catering and private jet catering at San José (MROC / SJO)
SJO (IATA) · MROC (ICAO)
The 3012 m runway at San José clears wide-body movements onto stands where our hi-loaders bring inflight catering straight to galley height, no delivery left waiting at the foot of the aircraft. Every uplift here runs off one ops desk, with in-flight catering staged by cabin and mission and boarded directly, airside, without a handoff at the stand.
3,012 m
Longest runway
Wide-body
Largest aircraft handled
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Runways
1
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 — San José
Inflight catering loaded to galley height at San José
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Aircraft catering lead times at SJO
Aviation catering from sealed cart to galley door at MROC / SJO
The catering uplift at San José moves from a sealed cart at our kitchen, across the apron, to the galley door with ramp access held on our own clearance rather than a delivery point at the aircraft steps. No single figure covers the whole route: screening, escort and stand assignment each set their own pace, and the sequence is planned around the slowest of them, not the fastest. What reaches the aircraft is timed against that plan, cart by cart, until the galley is sealed and signed for.
Between our kitchen and the stand at San José sit screening, an escort requirement and apron traffic that varies with the day's movements, and the catering uplift is planned against the worst of those three rather than the average. A convoy carries more risk than a kitchen does: the food is produced to specification well before departure, so what decides the outcome is whether the sealed cart clears the ramp on schedule, under escort, without being queued behind other ground traffic. Temperature is logged when the cart is sealed and again at handover to the galley crew, and the same named coordinator signs both readings, closing the loop on galley catering before the door is shut.
One coordinator carries the seal from our kitchen to the signature at the galley door.
Crew meals from the kitchen serving MROC
Airline food supplier crews cleared for San José
Airport catering at San José runs from a flight kitchen holding hot production, pastry, a cold larder and a protocol cell under one roof, built so a delegation, a peak departure wave and a repeat charter rotation are worked from the same floor without one displacing another. Airport catering here is planned to HACCP procedure at every stage, from intake to sealed cart, so the cold chain reads the same at the kitchen door as it does at the galley. Nothing is provisioned at San José without that line being closed first.
The team that handles government flight catering at San José is the same named crew on every rotation, carried on the access list rather than rotated in for a single movement. Each member holds security clearance on file and is trained to the household standards that a royal or state booking requires, with the paperwork that travels alongside a sealed uplift checked before the cart ever leaves the kitchen. That continuity is what a protocol officer is actually checking when the file is reviewed.
VIP flight catering menus for San José airport departures
Royal flight catering standards per cabin at SJO
Menus at San José are built to the cabin, the mission and the season rather than to a fixed catalogue, so First, Business and main cabin each carry a specification written for what that flight is actually doing. Inflight catering here draws on Costa Rica's own produce where the season allows it, dairy, fish and orchard fruit worked into the plan without naming a single supplier or a single dish. Every allergen, halal, kosher and medical requirement is documented per passenger and per cabin, filed against the booking rather than assumed from a general list. That documentation travels with the cart, checked before sealing and again at the galley door.
First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins at San José are plated to a written specification rather than a fixed menu, with caviar and à-la-carte service available on request against the standing order on file. VIP flight catering here is filed and checked before it leaves the kitchen, so the presentation matches what was ordered, cart for cart, on every rotation through MROC.
Business cabins
Business cabins at San José run multi-choice hot service to a written cabin specification, boxed in galley-ready tray sets sized to the aircraft fitted to that rotation. Crew meals at MROC are boxed to the roster alongside cabin crew meals and pilot meals, so crew meals at San José board on the same sealed cart as the passenger load.
Protocol & dietary
Protocol and dietary requirements at San José are documented per passenger before the cart is loaded, covering household, religious and medical requests alongside halal and kosher sets produced on a separate line and sealed before it leaves that line. The full range of IATA special meal codes is produced this way, so inflight catering in Costa Rica carries the same documentation whichever code is called.
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 San José airport
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 San José, Costa Rica
San José handles scheduled, charter and government traffic across a single wide-body stand, and each of those profiles asks the kitchen for something different: a delegation is a documentation problem before it is a food problem, a peak departure wave is a capacity problem measured against one loading window, and a repeat charter rotation is a repetition problem where the tray standard has to hold identically each time. Airline catering here is planned around whichever of those three is governing the day, not around a generic schedule.
The uplift moves from our kitchen to the ramp under our own escort, with airside delivery run to the stand rather than to a point at the foot of the aircraft, and the ground handling on that stand coordinated directly with our loading crew so the cart reaches the galley door on the sequence the rotation needs. Inflight catering, in-flight catering and aviation catering at SJO all run off the same ops desk for that reason: one plan, one crew, one handover.
What we commit to on this station is a single named coordinator, sealed carts logged at both ends, and a signed handover at the galley door, so airport catering in Costa Rica carries the same accountability whether the movement is a scheduled service or a one-off charter.
VVIP catering alongside scheduled flights at MROC / SJO
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Government and state flight catering at SJO
With one wide-body stand serving every category of traffic through San José, a head of state movement is worked on the same reference code as a scheduled service, just under a different file. Government flight catering here carries protocol 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 San José
Loading a private airliner on the same wide-body stand as a scheduled service means the household specification has to be ready before the aircraft is, since there is no separate position to fall back on. Royal flight catering at San José covers BBJ, ACJ and wide-body VIP movements, held to a written household file kept on record between rotations, with halal and other household dietary requirements produced on request.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at MROC
3012 metres of runway is enough to bring a wide-body charter onto the single stand at San José, and once it is there the uplift is staged as a full three-cabin load rather than a partial one. Charter flight catering here serves ACMI and wet-lease operators, group movements and special missions, with charter flight catering counted against the loading sheet in the order the galleys are laid out.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at SJO
A wide-body aircraft on the single stand at San José draws on the same reference code that lets us plan a full three-cabin uplift rather than a reduced one, which is what makes ad hoc airline catering possible here on short notice. Carriers running MROC as an outstation get outstation catering, diversion catering and technical stop catering off one duty roster, AOG included, across a multi-leg rotation.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at San José
Our kitchen provisions the GA terminal off the same 3012 m runway that clears the wide-body stand, keeping a private airliner and a scheduled aircraft on one shared production line. Private jet catering at San José reaches the FBOs on the field on the same cold chain and paperwork as an airline uplift, with FBO catering and business aviation catering handled off the identical duty roster used for business jet catering.
Private jets →
FBOs at San José
universal aviation
Aviation catering reviews from operators at San José
Operators on commercial aviation catering at MROC
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
Scheduled airline
“We used the team at San José (SJO/MROC) for diverted flight catering after an unexpected operational change. They reacted quickly to revised timings and passenger numbers, and the handover was straightforward. Exactly what we need when operations change with very little notice. Updates were timely and the final delivery matched the confirmation we had from operations.”
★★★★★Charter operator
Rita — Flight Crew Logistics Manager
“For an operation away from our normal base, we arranged airline catering at small airports at San José (SJO/MROC). The crew received exactly what was ordered, with clear labels and no last-minute chasing from operations. Reliable and easy to manage from the ops desk. That made the turnaround easier for both the flight crew and the team on the ground.”
★★★★★Scheduled airline
Oscar — Aviation Operations Executive
“We requested an airline catering cost per meal for San José (SJO/MROC) and appreciated how clear the pricing was. Pricing, delivery timing, and packaging were all explained upfront, which helped us approve the uplift quickly. The clear communication made the booking easy. Responses were quick whenever we had a question, which helped us keep the flight on schedule.”
★★★★☆Scheduled airline
Antoine — Airport Operations Lead
Airport catering profile for San José (MROC / SJO)
| Datum | Value |
|---|---|
| Longest runway | 3,012 m |
| Runways | 1 |
| Aerodrome reference code | wide-body |
| ICAO | MROC |
Airline catering services FAQ for San José airport
Technical stop catering questions at San José airport
What operations gets asked every week about San José.
Ask operations directly →Is airline catering cost at San José fixed or quoted per rotation?
Our desk builds every quotation around the cabin count, the specification and the loading window booked for that rotation, since airline catering cost is never published as a flat rate. Send the routing and the cabin mix and the desk returns a figure against San José's own loading sequence.
At what point are halal, kosher and SPML codes confirmed for a booking at SJO?
The special meal codes are confirmed at the point the booking is filed, before production starts, so halal, kosher and every other SPML requirement is documented per passenger from the first specification. That file travels with the sealed cart through to the galley door at SJO.
Who handles private jet catering delivery to the FBOs and the GA terminal at MROC?
Across the field at MROC, private jet catering reaches every FBO and the GA terminal from the same kitchen that provisions scheduled traffic, on identical FBO catering paperwork. One coordinator carries that uplift the same way a wide-body cart is carried, cold chain intact.
Does San José cater VIP, VVIP and government flights under a documented protocol?
Every VIP flight catering and government flight catering booking at San José runs against a written protocol file, security-cleared staff and a sealed uplift signed off before departure. Each household or delegation file is kept on record between movements for the next rotation.
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