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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — Rockland, United States
VIP flight catering, airline catering and private jet catering at Rockland (KRKD / RKD)
RKD (IATA) · KRKD (ICAO)
Two runways and a narrow-body reference code set the ceiling for what boards at Rockland, and inflight catering here is planned against that ceiling rather than against a wide-body ramp it does not have. AERO GOURMET runs in-flight catering to the aircraft actually working KRKD, uplift carried to the door and boarded on schedule, airside, every rotation.
1,650 m
Longest runway
Narrow-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 — Rockland
Hi-loader boarding for inflight catering at Rockland, United States
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Inflight catering order window at KRKD / RKD
Aviation catering from sealed cart to galley door at Rockland (RKD)
Ramp access at Rockland is planned before the sealed cart ever leaves our kitchen, because the apron here rewards a fixed route rather than an improvised one. Every catering uplift is staged against a known escort path across the apron, timed to the stand rather than to a general estimate. That sequence, kept identical rotation to rotation, is what makes the window at KRKD dependable rather than approximate.
Between our kitchen and the stand at Rockland, the convoy is the actual risk in any galley catering run, not the food inside it: screening, escort and apron traffic all sit ahead of the aircraft in the chain of custody. We plan the route against the worst case among them, not the average one, so the catering uplift arrives ahead of its slot rather than against it. Temperature is logged when the cart is sealed at the kitchen and logged again at the galley handover, and a named handler signs both ends of the load. That signature, not the dish inside the cart, is what a protocol desk actually checks at KRKD.
One coordinator, one sealed cart, one signature — from our kitchen to the galley door.
Pilot meals prepared for Rockland rotations
Airline food supplier crews cleared for Rockland, United States
The flight kitchen behind airport catering in Rockland runs hot production, a cold larder and a protocol line under one roof, built to HACCP standard and staffed to move tray sets from cold storage to the cart on a fixed schedule. Airport catering in United States terminals of this size depends on that single-site model rather than on a satellite unit, since every batch stays inside the same cold chain from prep to seal. Flight kitchen at RKD output is measured in trays sealed and carts dispatched, not in menus published.
Rockland's government flight catering is handled by the same named crew on every rotation, not by whoever is on shift: security clearance on file, listed on the access list, and trained to the paperwork that travels with a sealed uplift. That crew also carries royal household standards into any protocol movement routed through catering at KRKD, so the same names sign the same chain of custody each time. Continuity of staff, more than any single procedure, is what a protocol officer is actually checking for.
Halal airline meals and special meals at RKD
Royal flight catering standards per cabin at KRKD / RKD
Menus at Rockland are written to the cabin and the mission first, then adjusted for season, so a First-cabin tray set and a main-cabin meal box never come off the same specification. Local sourcing draws on the produce of the Maine coast and its dairy and orchard country where the season allows, worked into a standing menu rather than a one-off dish. Inflight catering at RKD carries documented allergen, halal, kosher and medical sets, each labelled to the passenger and to the cabin it is loaded into. That labelling travels with the tray from the kitchen seal to the galley handover, not just on the paperwork that follows it.
First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins at Rockland are plated to a written specification rather than to a standing menu, with à-la-carte and caviar service available on request. Every dish this desk handles for VIP flight catering is logged against that specification before the cart is sealed for boarding.
Business cabins
Business cabins out of Rockland run on multi-choice hot service, built to oven-ready formats sized to the galley fitted on the aircraft actually working the stand. Crew meals at Rockland and crew meals at RKD are boxed separately from passenger tray sets, with cabin crew meals and pilot meals kept on distinct manifests.
Protocol & dietary
Household, religious and medical requirements are documented per passenger for every rotation through inflight catering in United States operations run from this kitchen, halal and kosher sets built to the full IATA SPML code list. Each set is produced on its own line and sealed before it ever reaches the tray sets bound for the main 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
Aircraft catering under HACCP control at KRKD
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.
Airport catering delivered airside at Rockland airport
Rockland runs a narrow-body traffic profile against two runways, which keeps the catering plan built around a single stand rather than a bank of parallel gates: a scheduled rotation, a charter movement and a government delegation are worked one at a time, in sequence, rather than staged in parallel. Airline catering at KRKD is scheduled against that single-stand reality, so a delegation's documentation load is planned ahead of the aircraft's arrival rather than resolved on the ramp.
Uplift leaves our kitchen sealed and travels a fixed escort route to the stand, where our own loading crew boards it through the galley door rather than leaving it at the foot of the aircraft. Aviation catering at Rockland and in-flight catering at Rockland both run on that same ramp routine, with the cleared driver and the loading crew logged against the same handover sheet used on every rotation.
What we commit to at this station is one coordinator per rotation, sealed carts from kitchen to stand, and a signed handover at the galley door, the same standard behind airport catering at Rockland as anywhere else on our network.
VVIP catering alongside scheduled flights at Rockland, United States
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Government and state flight catering at RKD
Our kitchen holds the 1650 m runway at Rockland as the working limit for any aircraft flying a delegation in, and plans the protocol file around it rather than around the aircraft type. Government flight catering here documents every passenger, clears staff against a fixed access list, and seals the uplift before it leaves the kitchen for any head of state movement routed through this station.
Government & state flights →
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at Rockland
The 1650 m runway at Rockland sets the working envelope, and within it private airliners — BBJ, ACJ, wide-body VIP configurations — are boarded to a written household specification kept on file between movements. Royal flight catering at this station holds the same specification rotation to rotation, with halal sets and other household dietary requirements produced on request rather than improvised, and catering at RKD logged against that file every time.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at KRKD
A narrow-body aircraft is what the reference code at Rockland lets us board with full confidence, and charter flight catering at RKD is built around that class of movement for ACMI and wet-lease operators, group charters and special missions. Charter flight catering at KRKD covers a full multi-class uplift counted against the loading sheet, staged in the order the galleys are laid out for boarding.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at RKD
A 1650 m runway sets what can operate scheduled service through Rockland, and that ceiling is what shapes the ad hoc airline catering we run for carriers using KRKD as an outstation. Outstation catering, diversion catering and technical stop catering all sit on the same duty roster, AOG included, across a multi-leg rotation, with crew meals at KRKD and crew meals at RKD boxed separately from the passenger load.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at Rockland
On the general aviation side of Rockland, the narrow-body reference code still governs what the ramp can support, and business aviation traffic here is handled by our dedicated private jet catering branch working within that same limit. FBO catering at KRKD reaches the GA terminal and the FBOs on the field on the same cold chain and the same paperwork used for a business aviation catering or business jet catering uplift.
Private jets →
FBOs at Rockland
downeast air
Charter flight catering trusted at KRKD / RKD
Protocol officers on government flight catering at Rockland
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
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Scheduled airline
“Our ops team used the service at Rockland (RKD/KRKD) as an airline catering broker. They understood airline operations and kept communication short, clear, and useful. We would use the service again without hesitation. Updates were timely and the final delivery matched the confirmation we had from operations. Responses were quick whenever we had a question, which helped us keep the flight on schedule.”
★★★★★Private jet operator
William — Executive Flight Manager
“We used the service for airline catering in Rockland on a VIP rotation through RKD/KRKD. Communication was responsive and the team handled a late timing change without any issue. Good local support for a VIP operation. Updates were timely and the final delivery matched the confirmation we had from operations.”
★★★★★Government flight department
Leo — Delegation Travel Coordinator
“For our flight from Rockland (RKD/KRKD), the cabin order included multiple kosher airline meals. The team confirmed the dietary details carefully and there was no confusion when the order arrived. That attention to detail makes a big difference onboard. From an operational point of view, the service was easy to manage and required very little follow-up.”
★★★★★Charter operator
Marta — Flight Operations Coordinator
Outstation catering data for Rockland (KRKD / RKD)
| Datum | Value |
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| Longest runway | 1,650 m |
| Runways | 2 |
| Aerodrome reference code | narrow-body |
| ICAO | KRKD |
Business jet catering questions at RKD
Diversion catering and ramp questions at RKD
What operations gets asked every week about Rockland.
Ask operations directly →Can RKD produce halal, kosher and other IATA special meal codes?
Yes — halal, kosher and the full set of SPML codes are produced against a documented order, with each set labelled per passenger before it leaves the kitchen for boarding.
How far ahead does KRKD need an order placed?
KRKD works to a lead time set at booking, and the desk confirms how far in advance a first order is needed; the specification can still change closer to departure than a first-time customer usually expects, right up to a cut-off the same desk confirms, which keeps last minute airline catering realistic rather than promised on the page.
How far does airline catering at Rockland reach onto the ramp?
Airside delivery here runs on our own security clearance rather than a landside handover, so airline catering is carried by hi-loader to galley height and boarded directly, not left at the foot of the aircraft.
Rockland — how much does airline catering cost?
The sealed cart and hi-loader carry the uplift, but the airline catering cost itself depends on cabin count, specification and the loading window booked, so the desk comes back with a quotation rather than a published price.
Aviation catering across the Rockland region
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Airline & VIP flight catering →
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Airline & VIP flight catering →
Charter flight catering quote for Rockland airport
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Rockland (RKD / KRKD)
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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 Rockland (RKD)