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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — Cobbitty, Australia
VIP flight catering, airline catering and private jet catering at Cobbitty (YSCN / CDU)
CDU (IATA) · YSCN (ICAO)
A single narrow-body runway of 1464 metres sets the sequencing for every rotation we provision, so airline catering and in-flight catering at this station are planned to one loading order rather than a queue of trucks at the fence. That runway length keeps the traffic mix compact enough for our own hi-loader to reach galley height on every wide-body-configured aircraft rostered through, with inflight catering sealed at our kitchen and boarded direct, airside, rather than staged on the ramp.
1,464 m
Longest runway
Narrow-body
Largest aircraft handled
1
Runways
02
VIP at any volume
8 First covers or 400 passengers across three cabins, same execution
03
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 — Cobbitty
Hi-loader boarding for inflight catering at Cobbitty airport
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Airport catering order window at Cobbitty (CDU)
Aircraft catering handover at the galley door, YSCN
The catering uplift at Cobbitty is worked as a sequence rather than a single delivery: our kitchen seals the load, a cleared driver holds ramp access onto the narrow-body stand, and the hi-loader takes the cart to galley height. Nothing in that sequence waits on a truck idling at the aircraft steps, because the apron routing is fixed before the convoy leaves our gate. Every stage of it is logged against the aircraft registration and the rotation it is boarding, at CDU and nowhere else on the sheet.
Between our kitchen and the stand at Cobbitty sit a security screening point, an airside escort and the ordinary apron traffic of a single-runway field, and the chain of custody we run is built to survive whichever of the three runs long on a given day. A sealed cart that clears screening late still reaches the galley on the loading window we quoted, because the escort and the hi-loader slot are booked against the worst case rather than the average one. Temperature is logged at the seal in our galley catering kitchen and logged again at the handover on the stand, and the docket that closes the load carries a signature at both ends, not one.
One coordinator owns the load from our seal to the handover signature at the aircraft.
Airline food supplier for Cobbitty, Australia rotations
Cargo crew meals produced to the same standard at Cobbitty airport
Airport catering at Cobbitty runs from a single flight kitchen holding hot production, pastry, a cold larder and a protocol line under one roof, built to the HACCP standard that governs every tray leaving the building. That same kitchen is what makes airport catering here workable on a narrow-body reference code: nothing is subcontracted to a second site once the cold chain closes, so a load sealed at production stays sealed until the hi-loader lifts it. The result is one facility, one standard, one crew answerable for the whole route to the stand.
Government flight catering at Cobbitty is handled by the same named crew on every rotation, not a rota drawn at random: security clearance on file, entry on the access list, and training against household service standards for the uplifts that carry them. Security clearance is checked before the shift starts, not at the ramp gate, so a delegation movement never waits on paperwork that should already be closed. The same crew carries the chain-of-custody log from seal to signature, rotation after rotation.
Aviation catering menus and special meals for YSCN / CDU
Royal flight catering standards per cabin at Cobbitty (CDU)
Menus at Cobbitty are built to the cabin and the mission first, and only then to the season: a First cabin specification is not a scaled-down Business one, and a charter rotation is not fed from the same cycle as a scheduled outstation. Where local sourcing is possible we draw on Australian produce in general terms, dairy, orchard fruit and fish worked into the standing specification rather than named as a single dish. Inflight catering here is plated or boxed to the cabin it serves, never to a single house style repeated across all three. Every set closes on a documented allergen, halal, kosher or medical code, labelled per passenger and per cabin before it leaves the kitchen.
First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins at Cobbitty are plated to a written specification held on file between rotations, with à-la-carte and tray-plated service both available on request. VIP flight catering here is checked against that specification piece by piece before the cart is sealed, not against memory.
Business cabins
Business cabins at CDU take a multi-choice hot service built to oven-ready formats sized to the galley fitted on the aircraft, boxed in tray sets ready for the crew to finish. Crew meals, cabin crew meals and pilot meals are boxed separately to the roster supplied, each set labelled before sealing.
Protocol & dietary
Protocol and dietary requirements at Cobbitty are documented per passenger rather than assumed: halal and kosher sets, the full IATA special meal codes, and household or medical requirements are each produced on a separate line before sealing. Inflight catering built this way keeps every coded meal traceable back to the passenger it was ordered for.
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-compliant aircraft catering at Cobbitty
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 CDU
Cobbitty's single narrow-body runway and its aerodrome reference code keep the traffic mix compact, which means a government delegation or a wide-body VIP movement is worked as a documentation exercise rather than a capacity one: fewer aircraft on the board, more paperwork travelling with each. Aviation catering at YSCN is planned rotation by rotation rather than against a bank of simultaneous departures, so a peak wave never competes with the file for a state visit.
The uplift reaches the aircraft here by hi-loader straight to galley height, staged from our kitchen and escorted across the apron onto the one stand this reference code serves. Airport catering in Australia rarely runs on a shorter chain than this: no intermediate handler, no second seal, and airline catering at YSCN stays on our own badges from the kitchen gate to the aircraft door. In-flight catering in Australia at a field of this scale is worked stand by stand rather than terminal by terminal.
What we commit to at Cobbitty is one coordinator per rotation, carts sealed at the kitchen and a signed handover at the stand, with inflight catering at YSCN never split between two crews mid-route.
VVIP catering and commercial flights at Cobbitty airport
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Government and state flight catering at Cobbitty
Our kitchen seals every government flight catering load at Cobbitty before it clears the gate, documenting the protocol file per passenger rather than per aircraft. Security-cleared staff carry that file from the kitchen to the stand, and where a head of state movement is scheduled the same named crew works catering at CDU from seal to handover, with no substitution mid-rotation.
Government & state flights →
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at CDU
A narrow-body reference code at Cobbitty carries private airliners on exactly the same terms as a scheduled aircraft, which lets royal flight catering here run to a written household specification kept on file between movements rather than rebuilt each time. Catering at YSCN for BBJ, ACJ and other private airliner configurations follows that same file, with halal sets and other household dietary requirements produced on request against it.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at Cobbitty
A wide-body-capable loading method at a narrow-body field lets a full three-cabin charter uplift move through Cobbitty on the same hi-loader sequence as a scheduled aircraft. Charter flight catering in Cobbitty for ACMI and wet-lease operators, group movements and special missions is counted against the loading sheet before sealing, and charter flight catering at YSCN is staged in the order the galleys are laid out, cabin by cabin.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at Cobbitty
A narrow-body reference code at Cobbitty means every carrier flying this station works the same stand and the same hi-loader route, so ad hoc airline catering here is added to an existing rotation rather than built from scratch. Carriers running Cobbitty as an outstation draw on outstation catering, diversion catering and technical stop catering off the same duty roster that covers AOG, with crew meals at Cobbitty boxed to the roster on a multi-leg pattern and crew meals in Australia handled to the same standard station to station.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at CDU
On the same narrow-body reference code that governs every scheduled movement here, business aviation traffic at Cobbitty is worked by our dedicated private jet catering branch rather than folded into the airline queue. Delivery runs to the FBOs on the field and the GA terminal, on the same cold chain and the same paperwork as an airline uplift, with FBO catering at CDU logged the same way a wide-body load would be.
Private jets →
Charter flight catering reviewed at Cobbitty (CDU)
Operators on commercial aviation catering at Cobbitty, Australia
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
Scheduled airline
“I asked for HACCP at Cobbitty (CDU/YSCN) because we had limited time to reset the galley. Presentation stayed good while the setup remained practical for a fast aircraft turnaround. Good attention to the operational side of catering. The final handover was simple and there was nothing for the crew to correct before departure.”
★★★★☆Private jet operator
Amir — Executive Flight Manager
“We used the team for catering uplift at Cobbitty (CDU/YSCN) during a tight turnaround. Communication between dispatch, handling, and catering was clear throughout. That operational understanding was the biggest advantage. That made the turnaround easier for both the flight crew and the team on the ground. From an operational point of view, the service was easy to manage and required very little follow-up.”
★★★★★Charter operator
Mila — Charter Operations Manager
“I ordered FBO catering for our departure from Cobbitty (CDU/YSCN) and was very happy with the service. Everything was easy to check and load, and the passenger requests were prepared exactly as ordered. Reliable, responsive, and easy to work with. The final handover was simple and there was nothing for the crew to correct before departure.”
★★★★☆Scheduled airline
Sabrina — Ramp Operations Manager
Outstation catering data for Cobbitty (YSCN / CDU)
| Datum | Value |
|---|---|
| Longest runway | 1,464 m |
| Runways | 1 |
| Aerodrome reference code | narrow-body |
| ICAO | YSCN |
Business jet catering questions at YSCN / CDU
Diversion catering and ramp questions at YSCN / CDU
What operations gets asked every week about Cobbitty.
Ask operations directly →How much does airline catering cost at Cobbitty?
Cobbitty quotes are built from the cabin count, the specification and the loading window requested, since we publish no fixed price list; the desk returns a written quotation once those three are confirmed.
Can you deliver airline catering airside at CDU?
Airside delivery is standard at CDU: the sealed cart clears screening on our own badges and the hi-loader lifts it direct to galley height, with no handoff at the foot of the aircraft.
What protocol applies to VIP, VVIP and government flight catering at YSCN?
We run VIP flight catering and government flight catering at YSCN under a documented protocol file, security-cleared staff and a chain of custody logged from seal to handover.
When are halal, kosher and special meal codes produced for flights at Cobbitty?
Once a passenger manifest with SPML requirements is confirmed, halal and kosher sets and the full range of special meals are produced on a separate line and sealed before the standard tray sets.
Where is the lead time recorded for an order at Cobbitty?
The confirmation the desk sends back records how far in advance the order was placed and how late the specification can still change; last minute airline catering is worked against that same record, not a rule of thumb.
Which loader delivers private jet catering to the FBOs at CDU?
The same hi-loader and sealed cart route used for a scheduled aircraft carries private jet catering to the FBOs on the field and the GA terminal, under FBO catering procedures matched to whichever operator is handling the aircraft.
Inflight catering at other airports near Cobbitty
WSI / YSWS
Sydney
Australia · 17 km from Cobbitty
Airline & VIP flight catering →
BWU / YSBK
Sydney
Australia · 31 km from Cobbitty
Airline & VIP flight catering →
SYD / YSSY
Sydney
Australia · 46 km from Cobbitty
Airline & VIP flight catering →
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