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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — Salta, Argentina
Airline catering, VIP & private jet catering at Salta (SASA / SLA)
SLA (IATA) · SASA (ICAO)
Two runways, the longer at 3000 metres, hold Salta's aerodrome reference code at wide-body, so a widebody rotation is boarded here rather than diverted for it. That capability sets the method behind our inflight catering and in-flight catering: hi-loader boarding to galley height for every wide-body uplift, staged from a kitchen sequenced to the stand and ready before the aircraft is.
3,000 m
Longest runway
Wide-body
Largest aircraft handled
2
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 — Salta
Wide-body aviation catering at SLA
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Inflight catering order window at SASA
Aircraft catering sealed from kitchen to galley at Salta, Argentina
Wide-body reference code SASA governs how a rotation is planned here, and the loading window follows it: sealed cart to galley door, not an estimate. Ramp access is held on our own badges rather than borrowed for the day, which keeps the apron sequence in our hands from the kitchen gate to the stand. Cold chain and catering uplift are timed against that sequence, so the schedule holds when the apron is busy, not only when it is quiet.
Between our kitchen and the stand at Salta sit screening, an escort through the airside gate, and the ordinary traffic of a wide-body apron; we plan the catering uplift against the worst of that convoy rather than the best of it, because the convoy is the risk on this ramp, not the food. Chain of custody runs from the sealed cart to the signature at the aircraft, with a temperature log opened when the load is sealed at the flight kitchen and closed again at handover into the galley. Every case that leaves our galley catering line carries that seal until a named crew member signs it off on the stand.
One seal, one signature, one route from our kitchen to the galley door.
Pilot meals and cabin service produced for Salta airport
Cargo crew meals produced to the same standard at SASA / SLA
Wide-body reference code SASA is what the kitchen behind Salta is built to serve, with hot production, pastry, a cold larder and a protocol line run under one roof rather than split across sites. Airport catering at this scale means tray sets are built by cabin before they ever reach the ramp, and airport catering here follows the same HACCP-run kitchen whether the order is a single rotation or a full wide-body wave. The result is a flight kitchen at SLA that plans a delegation and a scheduled sector on the same sealed process.
Government flight catering at Salta is worked by the same named team on every rotation, not a rota drawn fresh each time, which is what a protocol office actually checks before it signs off a supplier. Security clearance is held on file for that team, their names sit on the access list for the kitchen and the ramp, and each of them is trained to the household service standard the sealed uplift travels under. Catering at SASA for that tier of movement is handed to nobody outside that named group.
VIP flight catering menus for SASA departures
VVIP catering written per mission at Salta
Menus at Salta are built to the cabin flown and the mission behind it, not to a single fixed sheet: a delegation, a wide-body charter and a scheduled sector each take a different specification off the same kitchen. Inflight catering in Argentina draws on regional produce in general terms, dairy, orchard fruit and river fish among them, worked into a seasonal rotation rather than a single card held all year. Every set is labelled per passenger and per cabin, with allergen, halal, kosher and medical requirements documented rather than left to a verbal note. That documentation travels with the load, sealed at the kitchen and checked again at the galley door.
First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins at Salta take VIP flight catering plated to a written specification rather than assembled to a general standard, with caviar service and à-la-carte options available on request. The presentation is filed against the standing order at SLA so a repeat rotation is served the same way twice.
Business cabins
Business cabins worked out of Salta take multi-choice hot service in oven-ready formats sized to the galley fitted to the aircraft, boxed as tray sets rather than plated individually. Crew meals at Salta separate cabin crew meals from pilot meals on the roster, and crew meals in Salta are boxed against the same duty sheet the cabin order is built to.
Protocol & dietary
Household, religious and medical requirements at SASA are documented per passenger rather than noted verbally, covering halal and kosher sets alongside the full range of IATA special meal codes. Inflight catering at SLA produces that tier on a separate line from the main cabin run and seals it before it leaves the kitchen.
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 Salta, Argentina
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 Salta (SLA)
Salta's two runways and its wide-body aerodrome reference code put this field in the same bracket as a scheduled hub rather than a light regional strip, which means a delegation lands here as a documentation exercise and a full charter wave lands here as a capacity one, not the other way round. Airline catering at Salta is planned against whichever of those two the rotation actually is, rather than against a single fixed template.
The uplift moves from our kitchen to the ramp under airport catering in Argentina rules that hold the same whether the order is one tray run or a full wide-body wave, with our own crew on the ramp from the airside gate to the stand. Aviation catering at SASA and in-flight catering at SASA both run off that same route, sealed cart to galley door, rather than two separate processes for two separate customer types.
What we commit to on this stand is one coordinator per rotation, sealed carts logged at both ends, and a signed handover at the aircraft, with inflight catering in Salta held to that same commitment on every movement regardless of segment.
Commercial aviation catering for every mission at SASA / SLA
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Government and state flight catering at SLA
At Salta, the wide-body aerodrome reference code held on the field is what lets a head of state aircraft be boarded rather than routed elsewhere for its uplift. Government flight catering here runs on a protocol file documented per passenger, security-cleared staff assigned to the movement, and the load sealed before it leaves the kitchen.
Government & state flights →
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at SLA
Sequencing a household uplift around a single wide-body stand is the constraint the reference code at Salta sets, since every private airliner movement shares that same stand rather than a dedicated one. Royal flight catering here is held to a written household specification kept on file between movements, covering BBJ, ACJ and wide-body VIP aircraft, with halal and other household requirements produced on request.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at SASA
3000 metres of runway, and that length keeps a wide-body charter on this ramp rather than routing it to a shorter field nearby. Charter flight catering at Salta covers ACMI and wet-lease operators and group movements, with charter flight catering staged as a full three-cabin uplift counted against the loading sheet before doors close.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at SLA
A widebody diversion inbound to Salta can be boarded here because the aerodrome reference code held on the field is wide-body, not a lighter category that would turn the movement away. Carriers running this station as an outstation take ad hoc airline catering and diversion catering off the same duty roster as a scheduled sector, technical stop catering and AOG covered on the same multi-leg rotation without a separate order path.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at Salta
We uplift business aviation on the same 3000-metre runway that clears our wide-body rotations, delivering private jet catering at SLA to the FBOs on the field and the GA terminal rather than treating it as a separate ramp. FBO catering here runs on the same cold chain and the same paperwork as a widebody order, business aviation catering and business jet catering included.
Private jets →
Charter flight catering reviewed at SASA
Protocol officers on government flight catering at SLA
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
Scheduled airline
“Our ops team used the service at Salta (SLA/SASA) as an airline ops catering supplier. The response time was good and we did not have to manage several local suppliers ourselves. We would use the service again without hesitation. Responses were quick whenever we had a question, which helped us keep the flight on schedule.”
★★★★★Scheduled airline
Alexia — Station Services Coordinator
“I arranged private jet catering in Salta for our departure from SLA/SASA. Everything arrived fresh, well presented, and easy for the cabin crew to organize before boarding. A very easy service to use at this station. Updates were timely and the final delivery matched the confirmation we had from operations.”
★★★★★Private jet operator
Abel — Cabin Operations Lead
“I requested SPML for passengers departing Salta (SLA/SASA) and the labeling was excellent. The order arrived complete and the special requests were handled with the same presentation as the regular meals. A good experience with complex dietary requests. From an operational point of view, the service was easy to manage and required very little follow-up.”
★★★★★Charter operator
Jack — Flight Planning Manager
Airport catering reference for Salta (SASA / SLA)
| Datum | Value |
|---|---|
| Longest runway | 3,000 m |
| Runways | 2 |
| Aerodrome reference code | wide-body |
| ICAO | SASA |
Business jet catering questions at SASA
Crew meals, lead times and access at SASA
What operations gets asked every week about Salta.
Ask operations directly →Is there a lead time for changing a specification on a Salta order?
Our coordinators set a lead time when the order is confirmed, and how far in advance a change is needed depends on the cabin count and the loading window booked; last minute airline catering is handled case by case rather than refused outright.
What does airline catering cost at Salta Airport?
We price a quotation against cabin count, specification and the loading window requested, since airline catering cost is never fixed to a published rate card; the desk comes back with a figure once those details are known.
When can private jet catering reach the FBOs at SLA?
Once an order is confirmed, private jet catering is delivered to the FBOs on the field and the GA terminal on the same schedule as an airline uplift, with FBO catering held to the same cold chain throughout.
How is airline catering delivered airside at SASA?
SASA's ramp access is held on our own badges, so airline catering moves by hi-loader from the sealed cart at our kitchen straight to the galley door, with airside delivery logged at both ends of the route.
Outstation catering near Salta
JUJ / SASJ
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Airline & VIP flight catering →
ORA / SASO
Orán
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Airline & VIP flight catering →
TUC / SANT
San Miguel de Tucumán
Argentina · 224 km from Salta
Airline & VIP flight catering →
Inflight catering quote for SASA / SLA
Request a quote
Send us your catering needs for SLA
Salta (SLA / SASA)
Give us the aircraft and what goes on board. A coordinator comes back with a quote for Salta, 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 Salta (SLA)