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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — Richmond, Australia
Airline catering, VIP flight catering and private jet catering — Richmond (YSRI / XRH)
XRH (IATA) · YSRI (ICAO)
One narrow-body reference code governs every stand at Richmond, and it sets the load plan before the aircraft turns onto the ramp. AERO GOURMET runs inflight catering, in-flight catering and aviation catering here on that footprint, with hi-loader access to the galley door and uplift staged to the wide-body standard we hold across the network.
2,134 m
Longest runway
Narrow-body
Largest aircraft handled
1
Runways
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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 — Richmond
Inflight catering at wide-body scale for XRH
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Aviation catering lead times and loading window at Richmond airport
In-flight catering, sealed cart to galley door, XRH
Ramp access is what separates this uplift from a delivery left at the foot of the aircraft: our cart clears the apron and reaches the galley door itself. Every catering uplift at Richmond is planned against the narrow-body reference code that governs the stand, so the sequence is fixed before the load leaves the kitchen. Nothing here is estimated after the fact; it is worked to the sequence the stand allows.
Between our kitchen and the stand at Richmond sit screening, an escort through the ramp, and the ordinary traffic of a single-runway apron, and we plan every catering uplift against the worst of that combination rather than the best. The chain of custody runs on a sealed cart from the moment the galley catering is closed at the kitchen, through the escort, to the signature at handover. Temperature is logged at both ends of that route, and the seal is checked before it is broken at the aircraft, so nothing between YSRI and the galley door goes undocumented.
One seal, one escort, one signature — from our kitchen to the galley door.
Flight kitchen and crew meals for Richmond airport
Airline food supplier crews cleared for YSRI
The flight kitchen behind airport catering at YSRI runs hot production, pastry, a cold larder and a protocol line under one roof, held to HACCP throughout. Airport catering in Richmond is built on that single site rather than split across several, which keeps the cold chain unbroken from the moment a tray is closed to the moment it clears the flight kitchen at XRH. Every tray set that leaves the building has already passed the same HACCP checkpoint, whatever cabin or mission it is destined for.
The team assigned to government flight catering at Richmond is the same named crew on every rotation, not a rota drawn from a general pool. Security clearance is held on file for each of them, they sit on a fixed access list for the airside route, and they are trained to royal household standards on the paperwork that travels with a sealed uplift. That continuity is what a protocol desk is actually checking when it asks who will be on the ramp.
VIP flight catering and dietary sets at Richmond, Australia
Royal flight catering standards per cabin at Richmond airport
Menus at Richmond are written to the cabin and the mission first, then adjusted for the season, drawing on the produce of the wider Australian region rather than a fixed and repeated list. Inflight catering in Richmond runs from a documented VIP flight menu and a charter flight menu through to a standard tray set, all built from the same kitchen and the same specification sheet. Allergen, halal, kosher and medical requirements are recorded per passenger and per cabin, and travel with the load rather than being resolved at the aircraft. The result is a menu range that scales from a single VVIP movement to a full charter rotation without changing kitchens.
First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins at Richmond are plated to a written specification rather than a repeated set list, with à-la-carte and caviar service available on request. VIP flight catering here is filed against the standing order, so the presentation is repeatable across rotations, not reinvented each time.
Business cabins
Business cabins at YSRI take multi-choice hot service in oven-ready formats sized to the galley fitted to the aircraft. Crew meals, cabin crew meals and pilot meals are boxed separately to the roster, alongside the passenger tray sets, all from the same production run.
Protocol & dietary
Household, religious and medical requirements are documented per passenger for protocol and dietary work at Richmond, produced on a separate line and sealed before it leaves that line. Inflight catering here covers halal and kosher sets and the full range of IATA special meal codes, each one labelled and traceable back to the passenger it was built 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
Aircraft catering food safety at YSRI / XRH
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 Richmond
Richmond works a mixed traffic profile against a single narrow-body reference code, which means every movement is planned to the same stand geometry rather than to a spread of aircraft types. That constraint turns catering into a documentation exercise as much as a production one: the specification has to be right before the cart leaves the kitchen, because the stand allows one sequence, not several.
Uplift reaches the aircraft here by airside delivery straight to the stand, with our own crew holding ramp access on our own badges rather than waiting on a third party. Aviation catering at Richmond, inflight catering at YSRI and airport catering at Richmond all run off that one route: kitchen, escort, stand, aircraft, in that fixed order.
We commit one coordinator to every rotation worked through airline catering in Australia at this station, sealed carts on departure and a signed handover on arrival, so responsibility for the load never passes between hands that are not named on the sheet.
Airline, charter and VVIP catering at XRH
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Government and state flight catering at Richmond
A 2134 m runway at Richmond takes the movements this segment brings without restricting the loading sequence built around them. Government flight catering here covers state visits and official delegations, with the protocol file documented per passenger, security-cleared staff assigned to the rotation, and the uplift for a head of state movement sealed before it leaves the kitchen at XRH.
Government & state flights →
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at Richmond
A private airliner sized to this runway can be boarded here without adjustment to the loading sequence, because the 2134 m length at Richmond already covers the movement. Royal flight catering and VVIP work for BBJ, ACJ and wide-body VIP airframes is held to a written household specification kept on file between movements, with halal and household dietary requirements produced on request rather than improvised on the day.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at YSRI
Against the single narrow-body stand at Richmond, a 2134 m runway sets the working envelope for every charter, ACMI and wet-lease movement that routes through it. Charter flight catering in Richmond covers group movements and special missions with a full three-cabin uplift counted against the loading sheet, and charter flight catering at YSRI is staged in the order the galleys are laid out, not the order the trays arrive.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at XRH
The narrow-body reference code held at Richmond sets one stand geometry for every carrier that routes through it, and our kitchen plans ad hoc airline catering against that fixed sequence rather than against the aircraft type. Carriers running YSRI as an outstation draw on outstation catering, diversion catering and technical stop catering off the same duty roster, AOG included, with crew meals boxed alongside the passenger load across a multi-leg rotation and ad hoc catering at XRH held to the same specification as a scheduled uplift.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at Richmond
A narrow-body reference code means business aviation movements are sequenced around the same stand geometry as everything else at Richmond, rather than given a separate ramp routine. Private jet catering at XRH is delivered to the FBOs on the field and the GA terminal on the same cold chain and the same paperwork as an airline uplift, kept brief and factual against the rest of this desk's work.
Private jets →
Charter flight catering reviewed at Richmond airport
Protocol teams on VVIP catering at Richmond (XRH)
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
Scheduled airline
“Our ops team used the service at Richmond (XRH/YSRI) as an airline ops catering supplier. They coordinated locally, sent useful updates, and kept the final uplift aligned with our revised schedule. It made the station much easier to manage. From an operational point of view, the service was easy to manage and required very little follow-up.”
★★★★★Scheduled airline
Grace — Network Control Coordinator
“Our team needed VIP flight catering in Richmond for a short-notice flight at XRH/YSRI. Communication was responsive and the team handled a late timing change without any issue. We had a smooth experience from order to delivery. Updates were timely and the final delivery matched the confirmation we had from operations.”
★★★★☆Private jet operator
Ryan — VIP Flight Operations Manager
“Our passenger profile required special meals at Richmond (XRH/YSRI), with several different dietary restrictions. The order arrived complete and the special requests were handled with the same presentation as the regular meals. 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.”
★★★★☆Government flight department
Maja — Delegation Flight Coordinator
Airport catering data for Richmond (YSRI / XRH)
| Datum | Value |
|---|---|
| Longest runway | 2,134 m |
| Runways | 1 |
| Aerodrome reference code | narrow-body |
| ICAO | YSRI |
Business jet catering questions at Richmond, Australia
Diversion catering and ramp questions at Richmond, Australia
What operations gets asked every week about Richmond.
Ask operations directly →When must an order be placed for catering at Richmond, and how late can the specification change?
When a rotation is confirmed we ask for the standing lead time to be respected, though last minute airline catering is worked whenever the kitchen can still hold the loading window; specification changes are taken as late as the sealing step allows.
How is VIP, VVIP and government flight catering handled at XRH?
XRH runs VIP flight catering and government flight catering through the same cleared crew and access list on every rotation, with the protocol file documented per passenger and the uplift sealed before it leaves the kitchen.
Do you deliver airline catering airside at YSRI, and how does the uplift reach the aircraft?
Yes, by airside delivery straight to the stand: our cart clears the ramp under escort and the hi-loader lifts the load to the galley door itself, never left at the foot of the aircraft.
Can you say what airline catering costs at Richmond?
The figure a quotation turns on is the cabin count and specification for the rotation, alongside the loading window available on the stand; we do not publish a price list, and the desk returns a quotation once those are known.
Commercial aviation catering near Richmond, Australia
WSI / YSWS
Sydney
Australia · 32 km from Richmond
Airline & VIP flight catering →
BWU / YSBK
Sydney
Australia · 40 km from Richmond
Airline & VIP flight catering →
CDU / YSCN
Cobbitty
Australia · 49 km from Richmond
Airline & VIP flight catering →
Inflight catering quote for Richmond
Request a quote
Send us your catering needs for XRH
Richmond (XRH / YSRI)
Give us the aircraft and what goes on board. A coordinator comes back with a quote for Richmond, 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 Richmond (XRH)