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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — San Juan, Puerto Rico
Airline catering, VIP flight catering and private jet catering — San Juan (TJSJ / SJU)
SJU (IATA) · TJSJ (ICAO)
The wide-body reference code at this ramp sets the loading plan: multi-class stands, hi-loader boarding to galley height, and a kitchen run tight enough for inflight catering to hold its window across a full rotation. San Juan (TJSJ) turns that into aviation catering and in-flight catering delivered airside, uplift after uplift, for scheduled, charter, VIP, government and private jet flights.
3,049 m
Longest runway
Wide-body
Largest aircraft handled
2
Runways
2
FBOs 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 — San Juan
Aviation catering boarded by hi-loader at SJU
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Airport catering order window at San Juan, Puerto Rico
Flight catering sealed and logged to the stand at San Juan airport
The catering uplift at San Juan is not timed on trust: it is logged at the seal, at the ramp gate, and again at the galley door. Ramp access here is held on our own clearance, so the convoy that carries the uplift moves without waiting on a shared escort slot. What the timeline shows is the same sequence every rotation runs, not an estimate rounded for the page.
Between our kitchen and the stand at San Juan sit screening, an escorted apron crossing and the ordinary traffic of a wide-body ramp, and it is the convoy, not the galley catering itself, that carries the real risk to a departure. We plan the catering uplift against the worst of that sequence rather than the best of it, building the window around the slowest clearance rather than the fastest one. Temperature is logged when the cart is sealed at the kitchen and logged again at handover, and the chain of custody closes only when a name is signed against the load at the aircraft.
One coordinator owns the load from the kitchen seal to the signature at the door.
Flight kitchen and crew meals for TJSJ / SJU
Cargo crew meals produced to the same standard at San Juan (SJU)
The flight kitchen behind San Juan runs hot production, pastry, a cold larder and a protocol cell under one roof, built to hold a HACCP standard across every tray that leaves it for airport catering in San Juan. Aircraft provisioning here does not split by customer: airline catering in Puerto Rico, VIP uplifts and crew sets are produced against the same cold chain and the same paperwork before they are sorted onto separate carts. That single production line is what lets airport catering at SJU hold its cold chain from the first tray sealed to the last one boarded.
The staff who handle government flight catering at this station are the same named team on every rotation, not a rotating pool assigned on the day. Each holds security clearance on file, sits on the access list for the ramp, and is trained to the household standards a protocol movement is checked against before it ever reaches the aircraft. The sealed uplift they hand over carries their name against it, and that chain of custody is what a protocol desk checks first.
First and Business inflight catering menus at San Juan
VVIP catering to a written specification at San Juan, Puerto Rico
Every menu written for this station starts from the cabin it is boarded into and the mission that cabin is flying, never the other way round. Puerto Rico's produce sets the register where local sourcing is used — dairy, tropical fruit, fish landed on the island — worked into a specification rather than a fixed plate, so the inflight catering served from San Juan shifts with the season instead of repeating a fixed card year round. First, Business and main cabin each carry their own tray set and their own timing against the loading sheet, so a full-cabin rotation and a single VIP uplift are built on the same kitchen line without either one waiting on the other. Every allergen, halal, kosher and medical set is documented per passenger and per cabin before it is sealed, so the desk that receives it can match the load against the manifest without opening a single tray.
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First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins at San Juan are plated to a written specification rather than a fixed card, with caviar and à-la-carte service available on request for a qualifying rotation. VIP flight catering here is filed against the standing order for that cabin, so a repeat movement is boarded to the same presentation it received the last time.
Business cabins
Business cabins at TJSJ take multi-choice hot service built to a cabin specification, boxed in oven-ready formats sized to the galley fitted on the aircraft. Cabin crew meals and pilot meals travel in their own tray sets, so crew meals in Puerto Rico and passenger service move on the same loading sheet without crossing carts.
Protocol & dietary
Protocol and dietary sets at San Juan cover household, religious and medical requirements documented per passenger, from halal and kosher trays to the full range of IATA special meal codes. Each set is produced on a separate line and sealed before it leaves that line, so inflight catering in Puerto Rico reaches the aircraft matched exactly to the manifest that ordered it.
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 Juan, Puerto Rico
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 TJSJ
San Juan handles scheduled, charter and government traffic across two runways built to a wide-body reference code, and that mix sets three different problems for the kitchen behind it: a delegation is a documentation problem before it is a food problem, a peak wave is a capacity problem, and a repeat rotation is a repetition problem that has to be solved the same way every time. Aviation catering at San Juan is planned stand by stand rather than as a single daily volume, because a wide-body departure and an ad hoc diversion do not carry the same lead time.
The uplift reaches the aircraft here by hi-loader, staged from a sealed cart at the kitchen through an escorted apron crossing to the stand, with our own loading crew on the ramp for every leg of that route. In-flight catering in San Juan and airline catering in San Juan share that one route regardless of which desk placed the order, and airport catering handled this way keeps the cold chain closed from the kitchen door to the galley door.
What we commit to at this station is one coordinator per rotation, carts sealed before they leave the kitchen, and a signed handover at the aircraft, so inflight catering in San Juan carries the same accountable chain whatever the mission behind it.
Royal flight catering and scheduled uplifts at San Juan (SJU)
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Government and state flight catering at San Juan
The 3049 m runway at this field takes the aircraft a head of state movement is flown on, and the kitchen behind it is built to match that traffic rather than adapt to it after the fact. Government flight catering at San Juan runs on a protocol file documented per passenger, security-cleared staff, and an uplift sealed before it ever leaves the kitchen.
Government & state flights →
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at TJSJ
A private airliner — BBJ, ACJ or a wide-body VIP conversion — is boarded here on the same runway length that takes a scheduled wide-body, with nothing in the loading plan adjusted for the smaller cabin count. Royal flight catering at San Juan is held to a written household specification kept on file between movements, with halal sets and other household dietary requirements produced against it on request.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at SJU
Across the wide-body stands at this field, a 3049 m runway is what lets a full charter rotation land and turn without a weight restriction shaping the loading plan. Charter flight catering at San Juan covers ACMI and wet-lease operators, group movements and multi-leg special missions, with charter flight catering built as a full three-cabin uplift counted against the loading sheet and staged in galley order.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at San Juan
The wide-body reference code held at this ramp is what lets a carrier run San Juan as a genuine outstation rather than a one-off stop, with ad hoc airline catering built to arrive on the same loading sheet as a scheduled rotation. Outstation catering, diversion catering and technical stop catering sit on one duty roster here, AOG included, so a multi-leg rotation through TJSJ is worked without a second call to a second kitchen.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at TJSJ
Sequencing a business jet alongside a wide-body rotation on the same reference code means the smaller aircraft is worked into the same ramp order rather than held for a gap in it. Private jet catering at SJU reaches the FBOs on the field and the GA terminal on that schedule, with FBO catering and business aviation catering carried on the same cold chain and the same paperwork as a business jet catering order for an airline uplift.
Private jets →
FBOs at San Juan
airport aviation services
jet aviation san juan
Charter flight catering trusted by operators at TJSJ
Operators on commercial aviation catering at TJSJ / SJU
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
Scheduled airline
“We needed an airline ops catering supplier at San Juan (SJU/TJSJ) and the support was excellent. The response time was good and we did not have to manage several local suppliers ourselves. We would use the service again without hesitation. Updates were timely and the final delivery matched the confirmation we had from operations.”
★★★★★Private jet operator
Florian — VIP Aviation Coordinator
“I arranged VIP flight catering in San Juan for our departure from SJU/TJSJ. Communication was responsive and the team handled a late timing change without any issue. We had a smooth experience from order to delivery. From an operational point of view, the service was easy to manage and required very little follow-up.”
★★★★★Charter operator
Giulia — Flight Planning Manager
“We had several SPML on our order at San Juan (SJU/TJSJ) and everything was handled correctly. Each item was clearly identified, separated from the standard meals, and easy to check before boarding. That attention to detail makes a big difference onboard. The order was complete on arrival and easy for us to check before closing the doors.”
★★★★☆Scheduled airline
Emma — Ramp Operations Manager
Outstation catering data for San Juan (TJSJ / SJU)
| Datum | Value |
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| Longest runway | 3,049 m |
| Runways | 2 |
| Aerodrome reference code | wide-body |
| ICAO | TJSJ |
Aircraft catering questions at San Juan (SJU)
Diversion catering and ramp questions at San Juan
What operations gets asked every week about San Juan.
Ask operations directly →Do you cater VIP, VVIP and government flights at TJSJ?
Yes, under a documented protocol: VIP flight catering and government flight catering both run on security-cleared staff and a sealed uplift signed for at the aircraft.
Can you deliver private jet catering to the FBOs at San Juan?
Every FBO on the field and the GA terminal receive private jet catering on the same cold chain and paperwork as an airline uplift, with FBO catering scheduled against the same ramp order as scheduled traffic.
How are halal, kosher and special meal codes handled at San Juan?
San Juan produces halal and kosher trays alongside the full range of IATA SPML codes, each documented per passenger and built on a separate line before it is sealed.
With two runways feeding one wide-body ramp, what does airline catering cost at SJU?
There is no published price list: a quotation depends on the cabin count, the specification and the loading window requested, and the desk returns one against those figures.
TJSJ, do you deliver airline catering airside, and how does the uplift reach the aircraft?
The hi-loader carries the uplift from a sealed cart at the kitchen straight to the galley door, so airside delivery here never passes through a curb-side handoff.
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Uplift at San Juan (SJU)