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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — Dallesport / The Dalles, United States
Airline catering, VIP flight catering and private jet catering — Dallesport / The Dalles (KDLS / DLS)
DLS (IATA) · KDLS (ICAO)
Two runways, a narrow-body reference code and a single kitchen serve every rotation through Dallesport / The Dalles, which keeps inflight catering here planned stand by stand rather than by assumption. AERO GOURMET runs the uplift on a hi-loader to galley height for wide-body-standard trays, with in-flight catering and aviation catering dispatched from one ops desk, airside, day or night.
1,554 m
Longest runway
Narrow-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 — Dallesport / The Dalles
Wide-body aviation catering at Dallesport / The Dalles (DLS)
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Inflight catering order window for KDLS / DLS departures
Inflight catering tracked kitchen to aircraft at Dallesport / The Dalles
Ramp access is what a catering uplift is measured against here, not a printed estimate: the sealed cart leaves our kitchen, crosses the apron on our own badges, and is boarded through the galley door at Dallesport / The Dalles. Two runways and a narrow-body reference code keep the routing short between the two points. What the timeline below records is that route, timed, not a target we quote and hope to meet.
Between our kitchen and the stand at Dallesport / The Dalles sit screening, escort clearance and apron traffic, and the chain of custody is planned against the worst of those three rather than the best. One coordinator carries the load from seal to signature, so no handover point is left without a named person responsible for it. Temperature is logged when the galley catering is sealed and logged again at the aircraft, and the galley door is not opened between the two readings. That double log is what turns a catering uplift here into a documented event rather than a delivery.
One seal at the kitchen, one signature at the aircraft: nothing in between is undocumented.
Airline food supplier for KDLS / DLS rotations
Crew meals and passenger sets from one kitchen at DLS
The flight kitchen behind Dallesport / The Dalles runs hot production, pastry, a cold larder and a protocol line under one roof, feeding both runways from a single galley-ready output rather than splitting production across sites. HACCP governs every stage of that output, from intake to the sealed cart, and the cold chain is held continuously from the larder to the aircraft door. That single-site model is what lets airport catering at DLS answer a wide-body order and a narrow-body rotation from the same production run, and it is also why airport catering in Dallesport / The Dalles does not depend on a second kitchen elsewhere.
The team that handles government flight catering at Dallesport / The Dalles is the same named crew on every rotation, not a rotating pool assigned by whoever is free that day. Security clearance is held on file for each of them, access to the kitchen and the ramp is controlled by a fixed list, and training covers household service standards as well as the paperwork that has to travel with a sealed uplift. That continuity is what a protocol officer checks first, and it is answered the same way every time catering at KDLS is booked for that kind of movement.
VIP flight catering and dietary sets at Dallesport / The Dalles
Commercial aviation catering written per cabin at DLS
The narrow-body reference code held at Dallesport / The Dalles governs cabin count, and every menu here is written to that count rather than to a generic template. Produce drawn from the wider Pacific Northwest region sets the seasonal frame — orchard fruit, dairy and river fish feature where the season allows, without any dish or supplier named on the page. Inflight catering at DLS is built cabin by cabin from that frame, First through the main cabin, rather than as one menu scaled up or down. Every dietary and religious set is documented per passenger and per cabin before the cart is sealed, so nothing depends on a verbal note at boarding.
First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins at Dallesport / The Dalles are plated to a written specification held on file between rotations, with à-la-carte and caviar service available on request rather than fixed to one fixed menu. VIP flight catering here is documented against that specification at every service, cabin by cabin.
Business cabins
Business cabins at KDLS run a multi-choice hot service in oven-ready formats sized to the galley fitted to the aircraft, boxed as tray sets rather than plated individually. Crew meals travel on the same cart, with cabin crew meals and pilot meals boxed separately against the roster.
Protocol & dietary
Protocol and dietary requirements at Dallesport / The Dalles are documented per passenger before the cart leaves the kitchen, covering halal, kosher and the full set of IATA special meal codes alongside household and medical requirements. Inflight catering produced against those codes runs on a separate line and is sealed before it leaves it, cabin by 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
HACCP and sealed transfer for aircraft catering at DLS
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 KDLS
Dallesport / The Dalles works scheduled, charter and government traffic across two runways rated to a narrow-body reference code, which makes documentation the constant concern on every rotation rather than sheer volume: a delegation adds a protocol file, a charter adds a group headcount, and a repeat rotation adds the discipline of matching the same tray set twice. Airline catering at KDLS is planned around that mix stand by stand, never as one standing order applied to every flight.
The uplift itself moves from our kitchen to the ramp by hi-loader, boarded directly to galley height rather than left at the foot of the aircraft, with our own escort on the apron for every load. Inflight catering, in-flight catering and aviation catering here run off one ops desk, so a change to a rotation reaches the loading crew before the cart is sealed rather than after.
What we commit to on this stand is one named coordinator, sealed carts and a signed handover at the aircraft door, on every rotation regardless of segment.
Royal flight catering and scheduled uplifts at KDLS / DLS
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Government and state flight catering at DLS
The 1,554 metre runway at Dallesport / The Dalles takes the aircraft types that carry delegations and state visits through this field, and government flight catering here follows from that access rather than from a separate arrangement. Protocol is documented per passenger, staff are security-cleared against a fixed list, and the uplift is sealed before it leaves the kitchen for official movements.
Government & state flights →
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at Dallesport / The Dalles
Private airliners — BBJ, ACJ and wide-body VIP configurations — draw on the 1,554 metre runway at Dallesport / The Dalles to operate into this field at all, and royal flight catering follows once that access is confirmed. Household standards are held across repeat rotations from a written 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 KDLS
Across the two runways at Dallesport / The Dalles, the narrow-body reference code sets the working pattern for group movements and special missions alike. Charter flight catering here serves ACMI and wet-lease operators as readily as a single group charter, with a full three-cabin uplift counted against the loading sheet and staged in the order the galleys are laid out, charter flight catering booked for one leg or a multi-leg series alike.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at DLS
Our kitchen keeps production running to the narrow-body reference code held at Dallesport / The Dalles, which is what lets a carrier running this station as an outstation draw on outstation catering without a standing contract in place. Ad hoc airline catering covers uplifts booked outside that pattern, diversion catering and technical stop catering are worked to the same tray standard, and AOG is picked up on the same duty roster across a multi-leg rotation.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at Dallesport / The Dalles
A narrow-body reference code sets the size an inbound aircraft has to work within on this field, which is the constraint any business aviation movement into Dallesport / The Dalles is sequenced against before the uplift is planned. Private jet catering at Dallesport / The Dalles reaches the FBOs on the field and the GA terminal on the same cold chain and the same paperwork as an airline uplift, business aviation catering included.
Private jets →
FBOs at Dallesport / The Dalles
Charter flight catering trusted at KDLS / DLS
Protocol teams on VVIP catering at Dallesport / The Dalles
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
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Scheduled airline
“For a team flight from Dallesport / The Dalles (DLS/KDLS), we booked sports team flight meals with several dietary requests. Final numbers changed late and the team adjusted without making the process difficult. We would book them again for another team movement. That made the turnaround easier for both the flight crew and the team on the ground.”
★★★★☆Charter operator
Mehdi — Flight Planning Manager
“For an urgent mission at Dallesport / The Dalles (DLS/KDLS), the team supported us with military charter catering. The meals were practical, clearly packed, and easy for the crew to distribute during the flight. Strong support for a demanding operation. Responses were quick whenever we had a question, which helped us keep the flight on schedule.”
★★★★☆Charter operator
Jade — Airline Cargo Coordinator
“We used the team at Dallesport / The Dalles (DLS/KDLS) for cargo airline crew catering on a night operation. Meals arrived on time and were packed practically for a working crew rather than over-presented. A reliable option for cargo operations. Updates were timely and the final delivery matched the confirmation we had from operations.”
★★★★☆Scheduled airline
Elena — Ground Support Manager
Airport catering reference for Dallesport / The Dalles (KDLS / DLS)
| Datum | Value |
|---|---|
| Longest runway | 1,554 m |
| Runways | 2 |
| Aerodrome reference code | narrow-body |
| ICAO | KDLS |
Airline catering services FAQ for Dallesport / The Dalles
Diversion catering and ramp questions at DLS
What operations gets asked every week about Dallesport / The Dalles.
Ask operations directly →What private jet catering do you deliver to the FBOs and the GA terminal at DLS?
We reach every FBO catering account on the field and the GA terminal directly, on the same cold chain and paperwork as an airline uplift, with no name-by-name arrangement needed on the reader's side.
Can you tell me what airline catering costs at KDLS?
A quotation turns on cabin count, the specification chosen and the loading window booked, since no fixed price list is published; the ops desk returns a figure once those three are set.
How do you cater VIP, VVIP and government flights through Dallesport / The Dalles?
Dallesport / The Dalles routes VIP flight catering and government flight catering through the same security-cleared team, with protocol documented per passenger before the cart is sealed.
Do you deliver airline catering airside at Dallesport / The Dalles?
Yes, by hi-loader straight to the galley door rather than to the foot of the aircraft, with our own escort on the apron for every load and airside delivery on every rotation.
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Four steps
Flight
Aircraft · stand · local time
Offloading
Return leg, if any
Order
Counts · menus · files
Contact
Who we come back to
Uplift at Dallesport / The Dalles (DLS)