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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — Mountain View, United States
Airline catering, VIP flight catering and private jet catering — Mountain View (KNUQ / NUQ)
NUQ (IATA) · KNUQ (ICAO)
The wide-body reference code assigned here means a hi-loader can present flush to the galley door rather than stopping short at the hold. That single fact is why AERO GOURMET runs inflight catering, in-flight catering and aircraft uplift at Mountain View as one operation: a wide-body stand worked by hi-loader boarding, airside, with the tray sets carried on board rather than left at the foot of the aircraft.
2,803 m
Longest runway
Wide-body
Largest aircraft handled
2
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 — Mountain View
Inflight catering at wide-body scale for KNUQ / NUQ
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Aircraft catering lead times at KNUQ / NUQ
Flight catering sealed and logged to the stand at Mountain View (NUQ)
Every catering uplift at Mountain View is planned against the same sequence: sealed at the kitchen, escorted to the wide-body stand, boarded by hi-loader to sill height. Ramp access is held on our own clearances rather than requested case by case, so the apron leg of the journey is scheduled, not improvised. What the timeline below shows is that sequence held to the minute, from kitchen door to galley door at KNUQ.
Between our kitchen and the stand at Mountain View sit screening, an escort through airside, and apron traffic that moves on its own clock, and we plan the catering uplift against the worst of those three rather than the best. The chain of custody runs unbroken from the moment the cart is sealed to the moment the galley catering is signed for aboard the aircraft. Temperature is logged twice, once at sealing and once at handover, and the paperwork that closes the load carries both readings and a signature.
One coordinator owns the load from sealed cart to signed handover, start to finish.
Pilot meals and crew meals prepared for Mountain View
Airline food supplier crews cleared for Mountain View, United States
The flight kitchen provisioning Mountain View runs hot production, pastry, a cold larder and a protocol line under one roof, which is what lets airport catering here move from ambient goods to a sealed, chilled load without a second site in between. HACCP governs every stage of that production, from intake to the sealed cart, and the cold chain is held from the larder through to the hi-loader rather than broken and remade at the ramp. That single-site model is what makes airport catering at Mountain View repeatable rotation after rotation.
The team that handles government flight catering at Mountain View is the same named crew on every rotation, not a rotating pool assembled to order. Each member carries a current security clearance, sits on the access list for the ramp, and is trained to the household service standards that royal and state work is held to. That continuity is what a protocol officer is actually checking for when a sealed uplift changes hands at the aircraft.
VIP flight catering menus for NUQ departures
VVIP catering to a written specification at KNUQ / NUQ
Every menu leaving the kitchen for NUQ is written to the cabin it boards and the mission it serves, from a First cabin plated course to a main-cabin tray set carried in volume. Local sourcing draws on the produce of the wider region, dairy, orchard fruit and fresh vegetables worked into the specification rather than named as a single dish. Inflight catering here is documented before it is cooked: allergen sets, halal and kosher requirements and medical diets are labelled per passenger and per cabin, not assumed at the galley. That specification travels with the load, so the cabin crew boarding it can match tray to passenger without a second check.
First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins at Mountain View are plated to a written specification rather than a standing menu, with caviar and à-la-carte service available on request. VIP flight catering here is filed against that specification before departure, so a repeat rotation boards the same standard every time.
Business cabins
Business cabins at NUQ take multi-choice hot service built to a cabin specification, boxed into oven-ready formats sized to the galley fitted on the aircraft. Crew meals, cabin crew meals and pilot meals are boxed separately and labelled to the roster, so tray sets and meal boxes match seat and duty without a manifest check on the ramp.
Protocol & dietary
Household, religious and medical requirements are documented per passenger at KNUQ, covering halal and kosher sets and the full range of IATA special meal codes. Every one of those sets is produced on a separate line and sealed before it leaves it, which is how inflight catering here keeps a single dietary error from ever reaching the aircraft.
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 KNUQ
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 Mountain View airport
Mountain View carries scheduled, charter, government and private business aviation traffic across two runways built to a wide-body reference code, which means a delegation movement and a peak charter wave can land in the same working day. A delegation is a documentation problem before it is a volume one; a charter wave tests capacity across several stands at once; a repeat rotation tests whether the same standard holds on the tenth uplift as it did on the first.
The uplift moves from our kitchen to the wide-body stand under airside delivery, escorted through the apron rather than handed off at a gate, with hi-loader boarding taking the cart to galley height. Airline catering, inflight catering, in-flight catering and aviation catering at this station run off a single ops desk rather than four separate bookings, and airport catering at Mountain View is planned stand by stand against the loading sheet for that rotation.
What we commit to is one coordinator per rotation, sealed carts from kitchen to aircraft, and a signed handover that closes the chain of custody.
Government, royal and charter flight catering at KNUQ / NUQ
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Government and state flight catering at NUQ
A 2803 m runway is enough to take the wide-body aircraft that a head of state movement typically flies, and that is the platform government flight catering at Mountain View is built on. State visits and official delegations get a protocol file documented per passenger, security-cleared staff, and an uplift sealed before it leaves the kitchen.
Government & state flights →
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at Mountain View
A private airliner — BBJ, ACJ or wide-body VIP configuration — can be boarded here on the strength of the 2803 m runway that clears it for departure fully loaded. Royal flight catering and VVIP work at NUQ hold to a written household 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 KNUQ
Across the wide-body stands at this field, the 2803 m runway clears a fully loaded charter departure without a fuel-stop compromise on the catering load. Charter flight catering at Mountain View covers ACMI and wet-lease operators, group movements and special missions, with a full three-cabin uplift counted against the loading sheet and staged to the galley layout.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at NUQ
The wide-body reference code held at this station lets our crews stage a full cabin set on one stand, which is what carriers running Mountain View as an outstation actually need from ad hoc airline catering. Outstation catering, diversion catering and technical stop catering move off the same duty roster, AOG included, across a multi-leg rotation, with crew meals boxed to the roster rather than treated as an afterthought.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at Mountain View
Sequencing a business aviation load around a wide-body reference code means working the GA apron on its own timing rather than folding it into a widebody rotation. Private jet catering at Mountain View, run through our dedicated business aviation branch, reaches the FBOs on the field and the GA terminal on the same cold chain and the same paperwork as an airline uplift.
Private jets →
FBOs at Mountain View
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Aviation catering rated at KNUQ / NUQ
Flight departments on jet catering at Mountain View
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
Scheduled airline
“We requested airline catering IATA standards at Mountain View (NUQ/KNUQ) and the packaging worked very well onboard. Presentation stayed good while the setup remained practical for a fast aircraft turnaround. Very cabin-friendly catering. That made the turnaround easier for both the flight crew and the team on the ground.”
★★★★☆Private jet operator
Jacob — VIP Aviation Coordinator
“We had an ACMI requirement at Mountain View (NUQ/KNUQ) and the coordination was very smooth. They understood the operational language and did not need every change explained twice. We appreciated how easy the coordination was. Updates were timely and the final delivery matched the confirmation we had from operations.”
★★★★★Government flight department
Elias — Air Mobility Coordinator
“For our business jet at Mountain View (NUQ/KNUQ), I arranged private jet menu with a few passenger-specific requests. They followed my notes closely, kept me updated, and delivered at the time agreed with the FBO. I would definitely order from them again. The order was complete on arrival and easy for us to check before closing the doors.”
★★★★☆Charter operator
Daphne — Ad Hoc Operations Manager
Airport catering data for Mountain View (KNUQ / NUQ)
| Datum | Value |
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| Longest runway | 2,803 m |
| Runways | 2 |
| Aerodrome reference code | wide-body |
| ICAO | KNUQ |
Inflight catering FAQ for NUQ
Technical stop catering questions at NUQ
What operations gets asked every week about Mountain View.
Ask operations directly →Do you cater VIP, VVIP and government flights at KNUQ?
Yes, under a written protocol that documents the file per passenger: VIP flight catering and government flight catering both run through security-cleared staff and a sealed uplift.
Can you deliver private jet catering to the FBOs and the GA terminal at Mountain View?
The GA terminal and the FBOs on the field are both reached on the same rotation as our airline work, so FBO catering here runs the same cold chain and the same paperwork as a wide-body uplift.
Mountain View Airport — can you deliver airline catering airside, and how does it reach the aircraft?
A hi-loader lifts each sealed cart to galley height, so airline catering here is boarded through the galley door under airside delivery rather than handed off at the foot of the aircraft.
With a wide-body reference code governing the ramp, how much does airline catering cost at NUQ?
There is no published price list: airline catering cost depends on cabin count, the specification chosen and the loading window booked, and our desk returns a quotation against those three.
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Charter flight catering quote for Mountain View airport
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Mountain View (NUQ / KNUQ)
Give us the aircraft and what goes on board. A coordinator comes back with a quote for Mountain View, not a brochure.
orders@aerogourmet.com · operations desk, 24/7
Four steps
Flight
Aircraft · stand · local time
Offloading
Return leg, if any
Order
Counts · menus · files
Contact
Who we come back to
Uplift at Mountain View (NUQ)