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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — Almeirim, Brazil
VIP flight catering, airline catering and private jet catering at Almeirim (SBMD / MEU)
MEU (IATA) · SBMD (ICAO)
A single narrow-body reference code at Almeirim sets the loading plan: one runway, one stand rotation, no room for a second sequence if the first slips. Inflight catering here is built around that constraint, with in-flight catering staged from a kitchen close enough to keep the hi-loader cycle tight and the wide-body-style uplift discipline held on every rotation.
1,800 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
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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 — Almeirim
Aviation catering boarded by hi-loader at Almeirim airport
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Inflight catering order window for SBMD / MEU departures
Aviation catering from sealed cart to galley door at Almeirim (MEU)
The single narrow-body stand at Almeirim sets one loading sequence per rotation, and the catering uplift is planned against it rather than around it. Ramp access is held on our own clearance, so the cart moves from the kitchen to the apron without waiting on a borrowed pass at the gate. Every stage between the seal and the galley door is logged, at Almeirim as at every other station we work.
Between our kitchen and the single stand at Almeirim sit screening, an escort and the ordinary traffic of a working apron, and none of it is left to chance on the day. We plan the galley catering run against the slowest of those steps, not the fastest, so a delay in one does not become a delay in the loading window. Every cart carries a temperature log opened at sealing and closed again at handover, and the chain of custody is signed off stage by stage rather than once at the end. The catering uplift for a rotation at SBMD is only closed once that signature is on file, matched against the loading sheet for that aircraft.
One coordinator owns the load from the seal to the signature at the door.
Crew meals from the flight kitchen serving Almeirim, Brazil
Airline food supplier crews cleared for Almeirim, Brazil
The narrow-body reference code held at Almeirim shapes a kitchen built for one rotation at a time rather than a wave of them: hot production, a cold larder and a protocol line run under one roof, close enough to the apron that airport catering here is planned to the minute rather than to the hour. That same layout is what lets airport catering at SBMD hold an HACCP standard on every tray without slowing the loading window it feeds. The flight kitchen at MEU answers to the same production discipline as any wide-body station on our network, scaled to the traffic this field actually carries.
The team that handles government flight catering at Almeirim is the same named crew on every rotation, not a rotating pool drawn in for the day. Each member holds security clearance on file, sits on the access list for the stand, and is trained to the household standards a royal or state movement expects. That continuity is what a protocol officer checks first, well ahead of anything on a menu.
Halal airline meals and special meals at MEU
Commercial aviation catering written per cabin at SBMD / MEU
Menus at Almeirim are built to the cabin and the mission rather than to a fixed template, adjusted for a scheduled sector, a charter rotation or a state movement without changing the tray standard underneath. Where local sourcing is possible on a narrow-body rotation, dairy, fish and seasonal produce from the surrounding region are worked into the specification alongside the wider network range. Every set is labelled per passenger and per cabin, with allergen, halal, kosher and medical requirements documented before the cart is sealed. Inflight catering at MEU is planned this way on every rotation, whatever the mission on the loading sheet.
First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins at Almeirim are plated to a written specification rather than to a standing menu, with à-la-carte and canapé service available on request for a state or private movement. VIP flight catering here is filed against that specification stand by stand, so a repeat rotation is served exactly as the last one was.
Business cabins
Business cabins at SBMD run on multi-choice hot service in oven-ready formats sized to the galley fitted to the aircraft on the stand. Crew meals, cabin crew meals and pilot meals are boxed separately from the passenger load and matched to the roster, so business-cabin tray sets and crew meal boxes leave the kitchen on the same cart but never mixed.
Protocol & dietary
Protocol and dietary requirements at Almeirim are documented per passenger before the cart is sealed, covering halal and kosher sets and the full range of IATA special meal codes. Household, religious and medical requests are produced on a separate line from the main load, so inflight catering at MEU carries no risk of cross-contact between sets.
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 Almeirim
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 Almeirim airport
Almeirim carries scheduled, charter and government movements across a single narrow-body stand, which turns every arrival into a documentation exercise as much as a loading one: a delegation needs its protocol file checked before the cart moves, and a repeat rotation needs the same tray specification held without drift. Airline catering at Almeirim is planned against that reality rather than against volume, because the constraint here is sequence, not scale.
The uplift travels from our kitchen to the stand under airside delivery, sealed before it leaves and escorted across the apron rather than handed off at a gate. In-flight catering in Brazil moves this way at every field we cover, and aviation catering at SBMD follows the same escorted route regardless of which segment is on the loading sheet that day.
What we commit to at this station is one coordinator per rotation, sealed carts logged at both ends, and a signed handover before the aircraft doors close, with inflight catering at Almeirim and airport catering in Almeirim held to that same standard on every load.
Scheduled, charter and VVIP catering at Almeirim airport
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Government and state flight catering at Almeirim
With one runway at 1800 metres setting the tempo of every movement here, our kitchen still runs a full protocol line for state and delegation work through Almeirim. Government flight catering at this station means the file documented per passenger, security-cleared staff on the access list, and the uplift sealed at catering at SBMD before it clears the stand for a head of state aircraft or an official delegation.
Government & state flights →
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at SBMD
A 1800 m runway serves Almeirim without limiting the household standard held on this stand across repeat rotations. Royal flight catering here follows a written specification kept on file between movements, extended to private airliners including BBJ and ACJ types, with halal and other household dietary requirements produced on request and VVIP protocol carried through the royal household chain of custody on every load.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at MEU
A narrow-body aircraft on charter, ACMI or wet-lease work is what the reference code at Almeirim is built to receive, and that code is what lets a full three-cabin uplift board here on schedule. Charter flight catering at Almeirim covers group movements and special missions with multi-leg routing, and charter flight catering in Brazil follows the same loading sheet discipline, staged in the order the galleys are laid out.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at Almeirim
The 1800 m runway at Almeirim, short enough to keep the field working narrow-body movements rather than wide-body ones, still supports a full ad hoc airline catering rotation on short notice. Carriers running this station as an outstation draw on outstation catering in Almeirim, with diversion catering and technical stop catering built into the same duty roster, AOG included, and crew meals at MEU boxed to the flight crew roster on every ad hoc catering at MEU call.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at SBMD
On the same narrow-body stand that Almeirim holds for its scheduled and charter traffic, business aviation is worked through the FBOs on the field and the GA terminal rather than a separate ramp. Private jet catering in Almeirim runs on the same cold chain and the same sealed paperwork as an airline uplift, with FBO catering delivered on request to whichever operator is parked that day.
Private jets →
Charter flight catering trusted at SBMD / MEU
Flight departments on jet catering at Almeirim
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
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Scheduled airline
“Our team used the service at Almeirim (MEU/SBMD) for royal flight catering with strict timing and handling requirements. They followed the instructions carefully and kept communication limited to the operational contacts involved. We would trust the team again for a similar movement. The order was complete on arrival and easy for us to check before closing the doors.”
★★★★☆Charter operator
Nabil — Crew Operations Coordinator
“We had a larger VIP aircraft at Almeirim (MEU/SBMD) and booked ACJ catering for the sector. The portions, packaging, and labeling worked well for the cabin, and the timing was spot on. I would happily use them again on a VIP rotation. The order was complete on arrival and easy for us to check before closing the doors.”
★★★★☆Scheduled airline
Khalid — Airport Duty Manager
“Our charter program used the service at Almeirim (MEU/SBMD) for umrah flight catering. Packaging was practical for the cabin and the uplift arrived in good order for departure. Good coordination for a high-volume movement. From an operational point of view, the service was easy to manage and required very little follow-up.”
★★★★★Private jet operator
Alejandro — Cabin Service Coordinator
Almeirim (SBMD / MEU): airport catering data
| Datum | Value |
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| Longest runway | 1,800 m |
| Runways | 1 |
| Aerodrome reference code | narrow-body |
| ICAO | SBMD |
Aircraft catering questions at SBMD / MEU
Diversion catering and ramp questions at MEU
What operations gets asked every week about Almeirim.
Ask operations directly →Which FBOs and GA terminal facilities does private jet catering reach in Almeirim?
The loader and sealed cart used for an airline rotation are the same ones sent to the GA terminal and every FBO on the field, so FBO catering runs on identical cold-chain and paperwork standards for a business jet as for a scheduled flight.
Where do you record the lead time and the cut-off for a specification change at Almeirim Airport?
The confirmed loading sheet is the record of both: how far in advance an order needs to be placed and how late a specification can still change are set out on it once the cabin count and mission are known, and last minute airline catering requests are worked against that same sheet rather than a fixed cut-off.
When are halal, kosher and IATA special meal codes produced for a flight through MEU?
As soon as the special meal codes are confirmed on the passenger manifest, halal and kosher sets and any other SPML requirement are produced on a separate line and sealed before joining the main load.
Can airline catering be delivered airside at SBMD, straight to the aircraft?
The single narrow-body stand at this field is where airside delivery is planned from the outset: the cart moves from our kitchen to the stand under escort, and a hi-loader closes the last stretch to the galley door rather than leaving anything at ground level.
What protocol governs VIP, VVIP and government flight catering through Almeirim?
We run government flight catering and VIP flight catering here under the same chain of custody as any state or household movement, with cleared staff, a documented specification and a sealed uplift signed off before the aircraft doors close.
Inflight catering at other airports near Almeirim
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Macapá
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Airline & VIP flight catering →
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Airline & VIP flight catering →
STM / SBSN
Santarém
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Airline & VIP flight catering →
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