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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — Tuherahera, French Polynesia
Airline catering, VIP & private jet catering at Tuherahera (NTGC / TIH)
TIH (IATA) · NTGC (ICAO)
A 1,200-metre runway sets the traffic this station handles, and it fixes how uplift moves across the apron to the aircraft. AERO GOURMET runs inflight catering, in-flight catering and hi-loader boarding for wide-body and narrow-body movements alike, sealed at the kitchen and carried airside to galley height for every scheduled, charter, VIP and government rotation through Tuherahera.
1,200 m
Longest runway
Narrow-body
Largest aircraft handled
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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 — Tuherahera
Commercial aviation catering at wide-body scale, NTGC / TIH
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Inflight catering order window at Tuherahera (TIH)
Aircraft catering sealed from kitchen to galley at Tuherahera (TIH)
Ramp access at Tuherahera is the fact that shapes every catering uplift here: the sealed cart moves from our kitchen across the apron to the aircraft, never handed off at its foot. That single point of ramp access is why the loading window can be planned rather than guessed, run by the same crew from seal to signature. The narrow-body reference code held at this field sets the sequence the hi-loader works to on every rotation.
Between our kitchen and the stand at Tuherahera sit screening, an escort through the apron, and the ordinary traffic of a working ramp; we build the catering uplift plan against the worst of those, not the average. The chain of custody starts the moment the cart is sealed and does not break until a named crew member signs for the galley catering at the door. Every degree is logged twice, once at sealing and once at handover, so a delayed rotation never becomes a temperature question as well as a schedule one.
One sealed cart, one signature, from our kitchen to the galley door.
Airline food supplier kitchen serving Tuherahera
Crew meals and passenger sets from one kitchen at NTGC / TIH
The flight kitchen behind Tuherahera runs hot production, pastry, a cold larder and a protocol line under one roof, holding the cold chain from the moment a tray is packed to the moment it clears the galley door. HACCP governs every stage of that run, which is what lets airport catering here move from a written specification straight onto the cart with nothing improvised on the ramp. That same structure is what turns airport catering at NTGC into a repeatable sequence rather than a one-off delivery.
The team that handles government flight catering at Tuherahera is the same named crew on every rotation: security clearance on file, on the access list, and trained to the household standards a protocol movement requires. That continuity is what a protocol officer checks before anything else, because catering at NTGC for a state or royal movement is only as sound as the people who are cleared to carry it across the ramp. Nothing about that team changes between one rotation and the next.
VIP flight catering and dietary sets at TIH
VVIP catering to a written specification at NTGC / TIH
Menus for Tuherahera are written to the cabin and the mission first, then adapted to the season, drawing on French Polynesia's own produce where the route and the load allow it. From passenger meal boxes to VVIP tray sets, inflight catering here moves through the same specification whether the flight is scheduled, chartered or under protocol. Dairy, fish and orchard fruit sourced regionally sit alongside a fixed core menu that does not vary rotation to rotation. Allergen, halal, kosher and medical sets are documented per passenger and per cabin, sealed on a separate line before they leave the kitchen.
First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins moving through Tuherahera receive VIP flight catering plated to a written specification rather than improvised service. À-la-carte and caviar service are available on request, with the presentation filed against the standing order before the cart is sealed.
Business cabins
Business cabins out of TIH 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 tray sets loaded for the cabin ahead of them.
Protocol & dietary
Household, religious and medical requirements for movements through Tuherahera are documented per passenger, covering halal and kosher sets and the full range of IATA special meal codes. This inflight catering runs on a separate production line and is sealed before it joins the rest of the load.
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 Tuherahera
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 Tuherahera airport
Tuherahera's single 1,200-metre runway carries scheduled, charter and government movements through one narrow-body stand, which turns every rotation into a documentation exercise rather than a volume one: each delegation or repeat charter is planned on its own paperwork before it is planned on food. Airline catering and aviation catering here run off one ops desk rather than several, because the traffic does not split across multiple stands the way it might elsewhere.
Uplift travels from our kitchen across the apron and is boarded by hi-loader to galley height rather than handed off at the foot of the aircraft, with our own crew holding the ramp access this stand requires. That same route carries in-flight catering and inflight catering for every segment using this field, cabin classes included, with nothing routed through a second facility.
We commit one coordinator to each rotation here, sealed carts logged at both ends, and a signed handover at the stand.
Aviation catering for five mission types at Tuherahera airport
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Government and state flight catering at Tuherahera
At Tuherahera, a single narrow-body stand is what a state visit or an official delegation is worked through, which makes government flight catering here a documentation exercise as much as a food one: protocol filed per passenger, security-cleared staff, and the uplift sealed before it leaves the kitchen. A head of state aircraft moving through this field is handled on that same file, never on an improvised brief.
Government & state flights →
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at TIH
Sequencing a household movement around a single narrow-body stand means the loading plan is fixed well before the aircraft is on the ground, because there is no second stand to fall back on. Royal flight catering at Tuherahera follows a written household specification kept on file between movements, covering private airliners such as a BBJ or ACJ, with halal and household dietary requirements produced on request.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at Tuherahera
The runway here measures 1,200 metres, which sets the class of charter aircraft this stand takes and the pace at which a group movement can be turned around. Charter flight catering at Tuherahera covers ACMI and wet-lease operators and special missions, a full three-cabin uplift counted against the loading sheet and staged in galley order; charter flight catering stays on that same sheet from kitchen to stand.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at Tuherahera
A narrow-body reference code governs the single stand at Tuherahera, and it is what lets a scheduled aircraft, an ad hoc diversion or a technical stop all be boarded from the same duty roster. Ad hoc airline catering covers outstation catering and diversion catering here, technical stop catering and AOG included, with crew meals held on the same rotation regardless of how the aircraft arrived.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at TIH
Our crews work business aviation off the same 1,200-metre runway and single stand that serve every other movement through Tuherahera, rather than a separate facility. Private jet catering at Tuherahera reaches 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 scheduled off the one ops desk that covers this station.
Private jets →
Charter flight catering trusted by operators at Tuherahera (TIH)
Operators on commercial aviation catering at Tuherahera
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
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Scheduled airline
“We were looking for a dependable airline ops catering supplier in Tuherahera (TIH/NTGC) and the process was straightforward. One contact handled the order from confirmation through delivery, which saved our dispatch team a lot of follow-up. We would use the service again without hesitation. That made the turnaround easier for both the flight crew and the team on the ground.”
★★★★☆Charter operator
Faris — Cargo Station Manager
“Our team needed airline catering in Tuherahera for a short-notice flight at TIH/NTGC. The menu selection was good and all special requests were clearly identified. 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
Pierre — Flight Services Manager
“I requested special meals for passengers departing Tuherahera (TIH/NTGC) and the labeling was excellent. 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. The final handover was simple and there was nothing for the crew to correct before departure.”
★★★★★Scheduled airline
Federico — Operations Control Officer
Tuherahera (NTGC / TIH): airport catering data
| Datum | Value |
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| Longest runway | 1,200 m |
| Runways | 1 |
| Aerodrome reference code | narrow-body |
| ICAO | NTGC |
Business jet catering questions at TIH
Diversion catering and ramp questions at TIH
What operations gets asked every week about Tuherahera.
Ask operations directly →Do you cater VIP, VVIP and government flights through Tuherahera, and under what protocol?
Yes, under a protocol file held per passenger: VIP flight catering and government flight catering both run on security-cleared staff and a sealed uplift, whether the movement is a state visit or a private household rotation.
There is no published price list, so what does airline catering cost at Tuherahera?
There are three things a quotation turns on here: the cabin count, the specification requested and the loading window available on the single stand, and the cost follows from those rather than from a fixed rate.
Can you deliver private jet catering to the FBOs and the GA terminal at TIH?
One ops desk covers the whole field, so private jet catering and FBO catering both reach every operator on it, boarded on the same cold chain and paperwork as an airline uplift.
How are halal, kosher and the IATA special meal codes handled at NTGC?
NTGC works every halal and kosher order, and the full set of special meal codes including SPML, off a separate production line, documented per passenger before the tray leaves the kitchen.
Tuherahera airline catering — is it delivered airside, and how does the uplift reach the aircraft?
The hi-loader is what carries it: airline catering here is boarded by hi-loader straight to galley height, an airside delivery from our kitchen with no handoff at the foot of the aircraft.
What lead time do you need for an order at Tuherahera airport, and how late can a specification change?
We ask for as much notice as the rotation allows and still hold changes open close to departure, so a late change of headcount or special meal count rarely forces a rewrite of the whole order.
Inflight catering at other airports near Tuherahera
MVT / NTGV
Mataiva
French Polynesia · 59 km from Tuherahera
Airline & VIP flight catering →
RGI / NTTG
Rangiroa
French Polynesia · 64 km from Tuherahera
Airline & VIP flight catering →
KKR / NTGK
Raitahiti
French Polynesia · 156 km from Tuherahera
Airline & VIP flight catering →
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