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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — Louisville, United States
Airline catering, VIP flight catering and private jet catering — Louisville (KSDF / SDF)
SDF (IATA) · KSDF (ICAO)
Louisville carries a wide-body aerodrome reference code, which means the ramp here takes full-body aircraft on stand rather than routing them to overflow parking for uplift. AERO GOURMET runs inflight catering and in-flight catering off that same ramp, boarding by hi-loader to galley height, with in-flight catering in United States built around the kitchen distance to the stand.
3,623 m
Longest runway
Wide-body
Largest aircraft handled
3
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 — Louisville
Hi-loader boarding for inflight catering at KSDF
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Airport catering order window at Louisville (SDF)
Aviation catering from sealed cart to galley door at KSDF
Ramp access at Louisville is what sets the loading window, not a printed schedule: the catering uplift moves from our kitchen seal to the galley door under one escorted movement across the apron. At SDF, that window is held against the aerodrome reference code, since a wide-body galley closes in a fixed order and the convoy has to be staged to meet it. Nothing on this route is estimated after the fact.
Between our kitchen and the stand at Louisville sit screening, an escort through the apron, and the ordinary traffic of a working ramp, and we plan the galley catering uplift against the worst case each of those can produce rather than the average one. Chain of custody runs as one named responsibility from the seal at the kitchen door to the signature at the galley, so a delay at any single checkpoint is a known and managed variable rather than a surprise on the day. Temperatures are logged twice, once when the load is sealed and once when it is handed over at the aircraft, and both readings travel with the paperwork on that rotation.
One seal, one escort, one signature — that is the whole loading window at Louisville.
Crew meals and pilot meals for Louisville (SDF) departures
Cargo crew meals produced to the same standard at Louisville airport
Our flight kitchen provisions airport catering at KSDF from hot production, pastry, a cold larder and a protocol cell run under one roof, built to HACCP and organised around the cold chain rather than around a single dish. Airport catering at SDF draws on that same structure for every rotation, whatever the cabin mix on the day. The flight kitchen at SDF is where a wide-body load is built and sealed before it ever reaches the ramp.
The team that handles government flight catering at Louisville is the same named crew on every rotation, not a rotating pool assembled per booking. Security clearance is on file for each of them, access-list status is checked before they reach the ramp, and household service standards are trained rather than improvised on the day. That continuity is what a protocol officer or a household manager checks first, and it is what a sealed uplift depends on here.
Halal airline meals and special meals at KSDF / SDF
VVIP catering to a written specification at Louisville (SDF)
Inflight catering at KSDF is written to the cabin it boards and the mission it supports, not to a single fixed menu repeated on every rotation. Regional sourcing draws on the produce of the surrounding United States countryside, dairy, orchard fruit and grain worked into a specification rather than into a named dish. Seasonal changes move the specification forward through the year while the tray standard itself stays constant. Allergen, halal, kosher and medical requirements are documented per passenger and per cabin, so a special set travels with the same paperwork as the standard load.
First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins at Louisville are plated to a written specification rather than to a fixed menu, with à-la-carte and VIP flight catering available on request against that same file. Presentation is checked against the standing order before it leaves the kitchen, so a repeat rotation is served the same way it was the time before.
Business cabins
Business cabins at KSDF run a multi-choice hot service built to cabin specification, in oven-ready formats sized to the galley fitted to the aircraft on the day. Crew meals at SDF and cabin crew meals travel in their own tray sets, with pilot meals boxed separately to the roster rather than pulled from the passenger load.
Protocol & dietary
Protocol and dietary requirements at Louisville are documented per passenger, covering halal and kosher sets alongside the full range of IATA special meal codes. Each of these runs as inflight catering produced on a separate line and sealed before it leaves the kitchen, so a household or religious requirement is met without touching the standard cabin load.
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 KSDF / SDF
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 SDF
Louisville carries scheduled, charter and government traffic across a wide-body reference code, which means a delegation movement, a charter peak and a repeat rotation can all be on the ramp within the same working day. That mix turns catering into three separate problems at once: documentation for a delegation, capacity for a wave, and repetition for a rotation that returns on the same schedule every week.
The uplift moves from our flight kitchen to the stand under airside delivery, boarded directly onto the aircraft by hi-loader rather than staged at the foot of the steps. Airline catering at SDF is planned stand by stand under that method, with in-flight catering at Louisville and aviation catering at Louisville run off the same ops desk regardless of which segment is boarding that day. Airport catering in United States follows the identical route wherever our kitchens provision it.
What we commit to on this stand is one coordinator per rotation, sealed carts from kitchen to galley door, and a signed handover at the aircraft.
Commercial aviation catering for every mission at Louisville airport
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Government and state flight catering at KSDF
Three runways serve Louisville, giving government flight catering the routing flexibility a single-runway field cannot offer when a delegation movement has to be sequenced around scheduled traffic. State visits and official delegations move through here with the protocol file documented per passenger, security-cleared staff on the load, and the uplift for any head of state movement sealed before it leaves the kitchen.
Government & state flights →
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at SDF
Private airliners, including BBJ, ACJ and other wide-body VIP configurations, are boarded here against the same wide-body reference code that governs a scheduled widebody, which keeps a royal flight catering load on a stand built for its size rather than an improvised one. Household standards are held across repeat rotations from a written specification kept on file, with halal and other household dietary requirements produced against it on request.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at Louisville
Across the wide-body stands at Louisville, the aerodrome reference code held here supports a full three-cabin uplift for charter flight catering rather than a scaled-down version of one. ACMI and wet-lease operators, group movements and special missions are counted against the loading sheet and staged in the order the galleys are laid out, with charter flight catering in Louisville following the same sequence whether the aircraft is on a single leg or a multi-leg pattern.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at KSDF
Our kitchen works to the wide-body reference code held at this field, sequencing production so a scheduled rotation and an unscheduled one draw on the same standing capacity rather than competing for it. That covers ad hoc airline catering for carriers running Louisville as an outstation, outstation catering and diversion catering handled off the same duty roster, technical stop catering worked to the same tray standard, and AOG catering carried across a multi-leg rotation without a gap in the paperwork.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at SDF
A wide-body reference code sets the ramp geometry here, so business aviation movements are sequenced around the same stands and taxi routes as the scheduled fleet rather than given a separate lane. Our dedicated private jet catering branch delivers to the FBOs on the field and the GA terminal, with business aviation catering and business jet catering run on the same cold chain and the same paperwork as an airline uplift, and private jet catering in United States following that identical standard.
Private jets →
FBOs at Louisville
atlantic aviation
Inflight catering trusted by operators at Louisville airport
Protocol teams on VVIP catering at Louisville, United States
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
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Scheduled airline
“I arranged VIP flight catering in Louisville for our departure from SDF/KSDF. Communication was responsive and the team handled a late timing change without any issue. I would use them again for another flight from Louisville. That made the turnaround easier for both the flight crew and the team on the ground.”
★★★★★Charter operator
Youssef — Flight Dispatch Coordinator
“Our ops team used the service at Louisville (SDF/KSDF) as an airline catering broker. One contact handled the order from confirmation through delivery, which saved our dispatch team a lot of follow-up. It made the station much easier to manage. From an operational point of view, the service was easy to manage and required very little follow-up.”
★★★★★Government flight department
Idris — Mission Planning Officer
“Our passenger profile required kosher airline meals at Louisville (SDF/KSDF), with several different dietary restrictions. The order arrived complete and the special requests were handled with the same presentation as the regular meals. We were happy with the accuracy of the order. From an operational point of view, the service was easy to manage and required very little follow-up.”
★★★★★Charter operator
Niko — Flight Operations Supervisor
Outstation catering data for Louisville (KSDF / SDF)
| Datum | Value |
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| Longest runway | 3,623 m |
| Runways | 3 |
| Aerodrome reference code | wide-body |
| ICAO | KSDF |
Business jet catering questions at KSDF / SDF
Diversion catering and ramp questions at KSDF / SDF
What operations gets asked every week about Louisville.
Ask operations directly →Can an order still change close to departure out of Louisville?
Lead time on a standard rotation runs from the initial specification, but how far in advance you confirm the final count is what decides how late that specification can still move. Last minute airline catering is handled where the change reaches us before the kitchen has sealed the load.
Louisville — do you cater VIP, VVIP and government flights, and under what protocol?
The hi-loader carries the uplift to galley height on the same stand used for a scheduled wide-body, so VIP flight catering and government flight catering follow identical ramp handling rather than a separate process. Protocol is documented per passenger and the load is sealed before it leaves the kitchen.
On the field at SDF, do you deliver private jet catering to the FBOs and the GA terminal?
There is a dedicated private jet catering branch that reaches every FBO on the field and the GA terminal itself, on the same cold chain and paperwork as an airline load. FBO catering here is not a scaled-down service, it is the same standard delivered to a smaller ramp footprint.
At what point does airline catering reach the aircraft at KSDF?
At the point the sealed cart clears the ramp, it moves by airside delivery straight to the aircraft rather than to a holding point at the foot of the steps. From there the hi-loader lifts the load to galley height for direct boarding.
Do you produce halal, kosher and the IATA special meal codes for flights through Louisville?
Yes, produced on a separate line from the standard cabin load and documented per passenger against the booking. Halal, kosher and the full range of SPML codes are handled this way on every rotation, not only on request in advance.
How much does airline catering cost at Louisville?
Security clearance, cabin count and the loading window all feed into the specification before a figure is quoted, since no two rotations draw on the kitchen the same way. We publish no price list; the desk returns a quotation once the specification is set.
Aviation catering at airports near Louisville
LOU / KLOU
Louisville
United States · 9 km from Louisville
Airline & VIP flight catering →
FTK / KFTK
Fort Knox
United States · 36 km from Louisville
Airline & VIP flight catering →
LEX / KLEX
Lexington
United States · 100 km from Louisville
Airline & VIP flight catering →
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Return leg, if any
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