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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — Raleigh/Durham, United States
VIP flight catering, airline catering and private jet catering at Raleigh/Durham (KRDU / RDU)
RDU (IATA) · KRDU (ICAO)
Every wide-body stand at Raleigh/Durham is worked around one aerodrome reference code, so a scheduled widebody, a government movement and a charter can share the same ramp without a clash in sequencing. AERO GOURMET runs inflight catering, in-flight catering and hi-loader boarding to galley height from a kitchen close to the apron, with the uplift held under one ops desk for every cabin at KRDU.
3,048 m
Longest runway
Wide-body
Largest aircraft handled
3
Runways
2
FBOs 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 — Raleigh/Durham
Aviation catering with ramp access at KRDU
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Inflight catering order window for Raleigh/Durham (RDU) departures
Aviation catering from sealed cart to galley door at KRDU
Ramp access at Raleigh/Durham is the reason the loading window can be planned rather than guessed: our crews board directly from the ramp instead of handing off at the foot of the aircraft. Every catering uplift is sealed at the kitchen, escorted across the apron and logged again at the galley door, so the sequence is measured at both ends rather than assumed in between. That measured chain is what a rotation at KRDU is actually booked against, not a quoted average.
Between our kitchen and the stand at Raleigh/Durham sit screening, escort and apron traffic, and the galley catering plan is built to absorb the worst of them rather than assume a clear run. Chain of custody is held by one coordinator from the moment a cart is sealed to the moment it is signed for at the aircraft door, with no handoff to a third party in between. Every catering uplift carries a temperature log opened at sealing and closed at handover, and the signature on that log is what closes the loading window at KRDU.
One coordinator carries the seal from our kitchen to the signature at the galley door.
Airline food supplier for Raleigh/Durham, United States rotations
Pilot meals and cleared production crews for Raleigh/Durham airport
Airport catering at Raleigh/Durham is provisioned from a facility built around hot production, pastry, a cold larder and a protocol line kept under one roof rather than split across sites. That layout means a delegation flight and a scheduled wide-body rotation can be worked from the same kitchen without either queuing behind the other, because each line runs to its own schedule. Airport catering here follows an HACCP standard through every stage, from the cold larder to the sealed cart, and the flight kitchen at RDU keeps that standard constant whether the order is a routine turn or a one-off charter.
The team behind government flight catering at Raleigh/Durham is the same named group on every rotation, not a rotating pool assembled per booking. 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 standards that a protocol officer expects to see documented rather than assumed. That continuity is what lets a repeat delegation move through KRDU without briefing a new crew each time.
Halal airline meals and special meals at KRDU / RDU
Royal flight catering standards per cabin at Raleigh/Durham (RDU)
Menus at Raleigh/Durham are written to the cabin, the mission and the season rather than issued as one fixed set for every departure. Where local produce fits the specification, dairy, fish and orchard fruit sourced from the surrounding region shape the seasonal frame the kitchen works from, without naming a single supplier or dish. From passenger meal boxes through to VIP flight menus, the inflight catering plan carries First, Business and main cabin on one build, so a wide-body rotation and a charter departure can share a kitchen day without cross-loading. Every dietary and religious requirement is documented per passenger and per cabin, with allergen, halal, kosher and medical sets labelled and tracked from production through to boarding.
First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins at Raleigh/Durham are plated to a written specification rather than a fixed set menu, with caviar service and à-la-carte options available on request for repeat rotations. VIP flight catering here is filed against the standing order for the aircraft, so the presentation stays consistent whether the same operator returns weekly or once a season through KRDU.
Business cabins
Business cabins at RDU run on multi-choice hot service built to cabin specification, with formats sized to the galley fitted to the aircraft on stand. Crew meals, cabin crew meals and pilot meals are boxed to the roster and loaded alongside the passenger service, so cabin crew meals in Raleigh/Durham travel on the same cart line as the main cabin trays.
Protocol & dietary
Protocol and dietary requirements at Raleigh/Durham are documented per passenger, covering household, religious and medical specifications produced on a separate line before they are sealed. Halal and kosher sets, along with the full range of IATA special meal codes, are built to that same documented standard, so inflight catering at RDU carries the paperwork with the tray rather than after 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 compliance at KRDU / RDU
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 RDU
Raleigh/Durham carries scheduled, charter and government traffic across three runways, and that mix turns catering into three distinct problems rather than one: a delegation needs its documentation right before it needs its food, a peak wave needs capacity held in reserve, and a repeat rotation needs the same tray specification every time it returns. Airline catering and airport catering at RDU are planned against whichever of those problems is live on a given day, rather than run to one fixed template.
The uplift reaches the aircraft from our kitchen by sealed cart, escorted across the apron to the wide-body stand and boarded by hi-loader to galley height, with ramp access held on our own clearance rather than handed to a ground agent partway through. Inflight catering and in-flight catering at RDU move through that same route regardless of whether the aircraft is on a scheduled turn or a one-off charter, and aviation catering in Raleigh/Durham is logged at each stage of that route rather than only at departure.
What we commit to at this station is one named coordinator per rotation, carts sealed at the kitchen, and a signed handover at the aircraft door that closes the record.
VVIP catering alongside scheduled flights at KRDU
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Government and state flight catering at KRDU
A 3048 metre runway at Raleigh/Durham is long enough to bring a head of state aircraft onto the same wide-body stands used for scheduled traffic, without a separate strip or a routing exception. Government flight catering there is documented per passenger, handled by security-cleared staff, and sealed at the kitchen before it leaves for the ramp, with a dedicated terminal used where the movement calls for one.
Government & state flights →
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at RDU
A 3048 metre runway takes the private airliners this segment moves on, from BBJ and ACJ conversions through to wide-body VIP configurations, without a length restriction narrowing the choice of aircraft. Royal flight catering at this station is held to a written household specification kept on file between movements, with halal and other royal household dietary requirements produced on request rather than assembled from scratch each time.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at Raleigh/Durham
A wide-body operator moving a full group charter can be boarded here because the aerodrome reference code held at Raleigh/Durham is built for that aircraft class rather than adapted to it. Charter flight catering for ACMI and wet-lease operators, group movements and special missions is staged as a full three-cabin uplift, counted against the loading sheet in the order the galleys are laid out, with charter flight catering repeated identically across a multi-leg season.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at KRDU
Three runways at Raleigh/Durham keep scheduled, charter and diversion traffic moving through the same ramp without one queuing behind another, which is what lets ad hoc airline catering here run on short notice rather than a standing schedule. Outstation catering, diversion catering and technical stop catering are each worked off the same duty roster, crew meals at KRDU boxed alongside the passenger service, and crew meals at Raleigh/Durham travel on the identical cart line whether the rotation is diversion catering or a planned multi-leg turn.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at RDU
Across the ramp at Raleigh/Durham, the aerodrome reference code that clears wide-body movements also covers the stands business aviation uses, so private jet catering here runs off the same clearance rather than a separate arrangement. Delivery reaches the FBOs on the field and the GA terminal under FBO catering, held to the same cold chain and paperwork as an airline uplift, with business aviation catering and business jet catering handled by the same dedicated branch.
Private jets →
FBOs at Raleigh/Durham
atlantic aviation
signature aviation
Charter flight catering reviewed at Raleigh/Durham airport
Protocol teams on VVIP catering at Raleigh/Durham, United States
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
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Scheduled airline
“For a last-minute requirement at Raleigh/Durham (RDU/KRDU), we contacted them as our airline ops catering supplier. They coordinated locally, sent useful updates, and kept the final uplift aligned with our revised schedule. Very convenient for operational coverage. The final handover was simple and there was nothing for the crew to correct before departure.”
★★★★★Charter operator
Yann — Cargo Flight Support Manager
“Our team needed airline catering in Raleigh/Durham for a short-notice flight at RDU/KRDU. The order was confirmed quickly, delivered on time, and packed exactly as requested for the aircraft. Good local support for a VIP operation. From an operational point of view, the service was easy to manage and required very little follow-up.”
★★★★★Scheduled airline
Gabriel — Ground Handling Coordinator
“I requested special meal codes for passengers departing Raleigh/Durham (RDU/KRDU) and the labeling was excellent. 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. Updates were timely and the final delivery matched the confirmation we had from operations.”
★★★★★Scheduled airline
Marco — Station Performance Manager
Airport catering facts for Raleigh/Durham (KRDU / RDU)
| Datum | Value |
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| Longest runway | 3,048 m |
| Runways | 3 |
| Aerodrome reference code | wide-body |
| ICAO | KRDU |
Business jet catering questions at KRDU / RDU
Technical stop catering questions at KRDU / RDU
What operations gets asked every week about Raleigh/Durham.
Ask operations directly →At what point does an order for RDU need to be placed, and how late can the specification still change?
The kitchen build starts once cabin counts and the loading window are confirmed, so lead time depends on how far in advance those figures are locked; last minute airline catering requests are worked against whatever window remains before the sealed cart is due on the ramp.
Whose special meal requirements does the kitchen at KRDU produce, and how are they documented?
Across every cabin, halal, kosher and the full set of IATA SPML special meal codes are produced on a separate line and labelled per passenger, so the documentation travels with the tray rather than being reconstructed at boarding.
Where does the cost of airline catering at Raleigh/Durham actually come from?
The quotation record is built from cabin count, the specification requested and the loading window booked, since no fixed price list is published; the desk returns a figure once those three are confirmed.
When is airline catering at Raleigh/Durham delivered airside rather than handed off at a gate?
Once a cart is sealed at the kitchen it travels airside for the whole route, boarded by hi-loader to galley height rather than staged at the foot of the aircraft, so airside delivery is the method for every uplift here.
Is VIP flight catering and government flight catering handled under protocol at RDU?
The same named coordinator who manages a scheduled rotation also carries VIP flight catering and government flight catering here, working to a documented protocol rather than an ad hoc arrangement.
Does private jet catering reach the FBOs and the GA terminal at KRDU?
Every FBO on the field receives FBO catering on the same cold chain and paperwork as an airline uplift, coordinated through the GA terminal rather than left to separate arrangements.
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