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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — Moline, United States
Airline catering, VIP & private jet catering at Moline (KMLI / MLI)
MLI (IATA) · KMLI (ICAO)
Three runways and a wide-body reference code at Moline (KMLI) put multi-class widebodies on stand and let hi-loader boarding bring uplift straight to galley height rather than to the foot of the aircraft. AERO GOURMET runs inflight catering, in-flight catering in United States and aviation catering off one ops desk, sequenced from a flight kitchen through airside delivery to the cabin door for scheduled, charter, VIP, government and private jet flights.
3,049 m
Longest runway
Wide-body
Largest aircraft handled
3
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 — Moline
Aviation catering with ramp access at KMLI / MLI
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Inflight catering order window for KMLI / MLI departures
Flight catering sealed and logged to the stand at Moline (MLI)
Ramp access at this station is the reason the loading window can be measured rather than guessed: the catering uplift moves from sealed cart to galley door under one continuous watch, not a handoff at the aircraft steps. Screening, escort and apron sequencing are worked into the same window rather than treated as delays to absorb afterwards. That discipline is what lets a wide-body rotation, a government movement and an ad hoc order share one clock at Moline.
Between our kitchen and the stand at KMLI sit screening, an escort through the apron and the ordinary traffic of a working ramp, and the chain of custody is planned against the worst of those three rather than the best case. Every cart is sealed at the kitchen and the seal is checked again at the galley door, so nothing about the catering uplift's condition is taken on trust between the two ends. Temperatures are logged at sealing and again at handover, and the galley catering load is only released against a signature that closes it out.
One coordinator carries the seal from our kitchen to the signature at the aircraft.
Airline food supplier kitchen serving Moline
Crew meals and passenger sets from one kitchen at Moline, United States
The flight kitchen behind Moline's ramp runs hot production, pastry, a cold larder and a protocol cell under one roof, built to HACCP standard so a wide-body rotation and a government movement draw on the same controlled line rather than separate ones. Airport catering at MLI is planned from that single kitchen outward, which keeps a multi-leg schedule and an ad hoc order on the same cold chain instead of two. Airport catering in United States gains from that consolidation: one facility, one specification, one point of accountability for what leaves it.
Government flight catering at this station is worked by the same named team on every rotation, not a rotating roster assigned on the day. Each member carries a security clearance on file, sits on the access list for the kitchen and the ramp, and is trained to the household and royal household standards a protocol movement expects, alongside the paperwork that has to travel with a sealed uplift. That continuity is what keeps a repeat state visit and a first-time charter to the same standard.
VIP flight catering and dietary sets at MLI
Royal flight catering standards per cabin at KMLI / MLI
Menus at this station are written to the cabin and the mission rather than to a single fixed list, so First, Business and main cabin each carry a specification suited to sector length and passenger count. Where produce sourced from the surrounding region is available, dairy, orchard fruit and grain form part of the seasonal frame rather than a named dish, adjusted month to month rather than fixed once and left. Inflight catering here covers everything from a passenger meal box to a VVIP tray set on the same production line, kept apart only by specification. Every allergen, halal, kosher and medical requirement is documented per passenger and per cabin before it reaches the galley, so a mixed cabin never relies on a verbal note at handover.
First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins at Moline are plated to a written specification rather than a standard tray, with caviar and à-la-carte service available on request and filed against the standing order for the route. VIP flight catering here is repeated the same way on every rotation because the specification, not the memory of a crew, is what gets checked at KMLI.
Business cabins
Business cabins at KMLI take a multi-choice hot service built to cabin specification, in oven-ready formats sized to the galley fitted to the aircraft, delivered as tray sets and meal boxes rather than loose trays. Crew meals, cabin crew meals and pilot meals are boxed separately to the roster so the flight deck and the cabin crew are never drawing on the passenger stock at Moline.
Protocol & dietary
Protocol and dietary requirements at Moline are documented per passenger before production starts, covering household, religious and medical needs alongside halal and kosher sets and the full range of IATA special meal codes. Inflight catering in Moline produces every one of those sets on a separate line and seals it before it leaves that line, so a mixed cabin travels on one uplift with no substitution at the door.
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 Moline 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.
Airside airport catering at Moline airport
Moline carries scheduled, charter and government traffic across a wide-body reference code, and that mix turns catering into three different problems at once: a delegation is a documentation problem before it is a food one, a charter wave is a capacity problem measured against the loading sheet, and a repeat rotation is a problem of holding the same specification twice running. Airline catering at Moline is planned against whichever of those the schedule puts in front of it that day, not against a single default case.
The uplift itself moves by airside delivery from our kitchen to the stand, boarded by hi-loader to galley height rather than staged at the foot of the aircraft, with our own crew holding the ramp access badge for the walk across. Inflight catering at Moline and aviation catering in Moline both run off that same route, so a scheduled sector and an ad hoc charter draw on one path rather than two parallel ones. In-flight catering at MLI is timed against the loading sheet, not against the clock alone.
What we commit to on this station is one coordinator per rotation, carts sealed at the kitchen, and a signed handover at the aircraft door, so airport catering in Moline carries a single point of accountability from seal to signature.
VVIP catering alongside scheduled flights at KMLI / MLI
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Government and state flight catering at KMLI
Across the wide-body reference code held at this field, a head of state aircraft is worked to the same stand discipline as any other movement, with the protocol file built around it rather than around the airframe. Government flight catering at Moline covers state visits and official delegations with security clearance on file, cleared personnel 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 MLI
Sequencing a household movement here means working around the same wide-body reference code that governs every other stand assignment, so a private airliner is slotted into the loading plan rather than given a separate one. Royal flight catering at this station holds VVIP work — BBJ, ACJ and wide-body VIP aircraft — to a written household specification kept on file between movements, with halal and other royal household requirements produced on request.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at Moline
3,049 metres of runway, and a wide-body airframe on a group charter or a wet-lease rotation can be worked here without a special allowance. Charter flight catering at Moline serves ACMI and wet-lease operators, sports team and tour operator movements, and repatriation or humanitarian missions with a full three-cabin uplift staged against the loading sheet; charter flight catering at MLI keeps a multi-leg tour to one specification across every stop.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at KMLI
A wide-body reference code at this station lets a scheduled widebody, a repositioning aircraft or an ad hoc charter share the same stand infrastructure rather than needing a dedicated one. Ad hoc airline catering at Moline runs alongside outstation catering, diversion catering and technical stop catering off one duty roster, with AOG covered on the same line and a multi-leg rotation held to a single tray standard across every leg.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at MLI
Our kitchen provisions the FBOs on the field and the GA terminal off the same 3,049 metre runway that clears a wide-body airframe, so a business jet movement is worked from the identical stock rather than a separate one. Private jet catering at Moline, FBO catering and business aviation catering here run on the same cold chain and the same paperwork as a business jet catering order for an airline uplift.
Private jets →
FBOs at Moline
elliott aviation
qcia airport services
Charter flight catering trusted at KMLI / MLI
Operators on commercial aviation catering at Moline
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
Scheduled airline
“Our flight at Moline (MLI/KMLI) required airline meal boxes with clear service-by-service organization. Everything was labeled, compact, and easy to place directly into the aircraft without repacking on the ramp. Good attention to the operational side of catering. Updates were timely and the final delivery matched the confirmation we had from operations.”
★★★★☆Scheduled airline
Adrian — Station Operations Manager
“Our operation through Moline (MLI/KMLI) included a tech stop request at short notice. The team stayed in contact with operations, adjusted to the new timing, and kept the aircraft handover simple. We appreciated how easy the coordination was. Responses were quick whenever we had a question, which helped us keep the flight on schedule.”
★★★★★Private jet operator
Amelia — VIP Flight Operations Manager
“We used the team for FBO catering at Moline (MLI/KMLI) on a VIP trip. Everything was easy to check and load, and the passenger requests were prepared exactly as ordered. Exactly what I want from a private aviation caterer. From an operational point of view, the service was easy to manage and required very little follow-up.”
★★★★★Charter operator
Joana — Charter Flight Coordinator
Station data for aviation catering at Moline (KMLI / MLI)
| Datum | Value |
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| Longest runway | 3,049 m |
| Runways | 3 |
| Aerodrome reference code | wide-body |
| ICAO | KMLI |
Aircraft catering questions at KMLI
Diversion catering and ramp questions at MLI
What operations gets asked every week about Moline.
Ask operations directly →How much does airline catering cost at KMLI?
The standard held on every uplift is fixed, but the price is not: it depends on cabin count, specification and the loading window booked for the rotation. Our desk returns a quotation against those three inputs rather than a published rate.
Do you produce halal, kosher and special meal codes at Moline?
Yes, produced on a dedicated line and documented per passenger, covering halal and kosher sets alongside the full range of IATA SPML codes. Each set is sealed separately before it joins the rest of the uplift.
Given the FBOs on the field, do you deliver private jet catering at Moline Airport?
There is coverage across every FBO on the field and the GA terminal, all supplied from the same kitchen as an airline uplift. FBO catering here follows the same cold chain and the same paperwork, with no separate standard for a business aircraft.
Can an order be placed close to departure at MLI?
The lead time asked for a standard specification is longer than the window a last-minute airline catering request needs, and how far in advance depends on cabin count and complexity. A specification can still change closer to departure than the original order, within the loading window confirmed by the desk.
KMLI handles VIP, VVIP and government flights under what protocol?
The sealed cart is the unit every movement travels in, whether the manifest reads government flight catering, VIP flight catering or a standard charter. Protocol documentation, cleared personnel and a signed handover apply to all three without a separate track for any one of them.
At what point does the uplift move from airside delivery to hi-loader boarding at Moline?
The cart is sealed at the kitchen before it ever reaches the apron, then delivered airside to the stand, then boarded by hi-loader straight to galley height. Airline catering at Moline is handed off only at that final step, never at the foot of the aircraft.
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Airline & VIP flight catering →
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Four steps
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Aircraft · stand · local time
Offloading
Return leg, if any
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Uplift at Moline (MLI)