Airline & VIP flight catering — South America
Airline, VIP Flight and Private Jet Catering Across South America
Airline catering across South America is built on ramp access: loads move by hi-loader straight to the aircraft door, not to the foot of the stand. Wide-body galleys are boarded directly, keeping aviation catering aligned with turnaround times across the continent's stations.

Airline Catering by Country in South America
Each country page below sets out the stations we serve, their runway and stand data, and the terminals equipped for VIP and government movements. Use them to identify which field carries the codes and capacity your routing needs.

On the apron — South America
Ramp Access and Hi-Loader Boarding Across South America
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
How Aviation Catering Operates in South America
South American traffic runs on a mix of dense domestic trunk routes, long-haul wide-body arrivals and a steady flow of charter and government movements, and airport catering here is built around that mix rather than a single pattern. An ops desk handling this continent works across jurisdictions, each with its own customs, sanitary and cold-chain rules, and a request has to clear all of them before a load reaches the tarmac.
Our stations listed on this page carry their own runway, stand and kitchen-distance data, and a request is matched to the field that carries the capacity the aircraft needs — a wide-body stand, a suitable aerodrome reference code, a kitchen close enough to hold the cold chain to boarding. That routing is handled by one coordinating desk rather than a chain of local agents.
Airline catering companies operating across several of these countries gain a single point of contact instead of separate arrangements per jurisdiction. The same production standard, the same documentation and the same hi-loader boarding method apply at every field we serve, so an itinerary crossing borders keeps one uplift standard from the first stand to the last.
Compliance
One Compliance Standard Across South America
One Operation, Five Kinds of Flying in South America
Across South America, the same ops desk covers airline catering, VIP flight catering and charter flight catering under one coordinating structure. An aircraft on the ramp is served to the same standard whichever segment it belongs to, and the five pages below set out each one in turn.





Compare Airline Catering Stations in South America
The table below sets out which field takes wide-body traffic, which boards directly by hi-loader, and which sits closest to a production kitchen, so an operator can match a routing to the station that carries the capacity it needs.
| Where | Published stations | Longest runway | VIP / gov terminal | Aerodrome code |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Argentina | 68 | 3,549 m | 0 of 68 | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Bolivia | 18 | 4,000 m | 0 of 18 | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Brazil | 117 | 4,000 m | 0 of 117 | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Chile | 32 | 3,750 m | 0 of 32 | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Colombia | 58 | 3,800 m | 0 of 58 | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Ecuador | 17 | 4,098 m | 0 of 17 | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Falkland Islands | 1 | 2,590 m | 0 of 1 | wide-body |
| French Guiana | 4 | 3,196 m | 0 of 4 | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Guyana | 4 | 3,360 m | 0 of 4 | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Paraguay | 8 | 3,500 m | 0 of 8 | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Peru | 30 | 4,200 m | 0 of 30 | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Suriname | 1 | 3,480 m | 0 of 1 | wide-body |
| Uruguay | 6 | 3,200 m | 0 of 6 | narrow-body · wide-body |
| Venezuela | 43 | 3,500 m | 0 of 43 | narrow-body · wide-body |
Requesting Catering Across South American Stations
To request airline catering services at any South American station, send flight number, ETA, passenger and crew counts by cabin, aircraft type, stand assignment and any special meal codes to our ops desk. That single submission lets the coordinating desk route the load to the correct station and kitchen, confirm hi-loader boarding, and return a quote covering the segment — airline, government, royal, charter or private jet. Submit a request through the quote form to begin.
South America Catering Questions
What Operations Desks Ask About This Region
Ask operations directly →Which South American stations can take a wide-body diversion on short notice?
Each country page lists the stations we serve along with their runway length, stand count and aerodrome reference code, so a diversion can be matched to a field with wide-body capacity before the aircraft is committed. Contact the ops desk with the aircraft type and ETA to confirm.
Do you load directly onto the aircraft or deliver to the stand?
Boarding is by hi-loader directly to the galley door at the stations equipped for it, rather than delivery to the foot of the aircraft. This keeps turnaround times aligned with scheduled and ad hoc airline movements alike.
Can one coordinator handle a multi-country itinerary across South America?
Yes. A single ops desk coordinates requests across the countries listed on this page, applying the same documentation, cold-chain and production standard at each stand regardless of jurisdiction.
Do you cater government and royal flights in this region?
Government, state and royal flight catering is handled by cleared personnel under one named coordinator, with sealed loads and protocol held from kitchen to galley door. No mission or nation details are published.
Is private jet catering available at the same stations?
Our private-jet branch serves the FBOs and GA terminals at these stations on the same cold chain and paperwork as an airline uplift, so business aviation requests follow the identical booking route.
Request Airline Catering in South America
Send Your Wide-Body Uplift Requirements
One ops desk covers the whole route in South America. Give us the aircraft and what you need loaded, and a coordinator comes back with a quote.
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