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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — Araguaína, Brazil
VIP & private jet catering with airline catering at Araguaína (SWGN / AUX)
AUX (IATA) · SWGN (ICAO)
With a single narrow-body runway of 1,804 metres, Araguaína handles a defined slice of scheduled and charter traffic, and every rotation through it can be boarded to a written specification. Inflight catering here runs from one flight kitchen to the aircraft door: in-flight catering is planned around wide-body-grade hi-loader access wherever the stand allows it, and each uplift is sealed before it clears the ramp.
1,804 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 — Araguaína
Inflight catering at wide-body scale for SWGN / AUX
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Aviation catering lead times and loading window at Araguaína, Brazil
Aircraft catering handover at the galley door, Araguaína airport
The sealed cart that leaves our kitchen for Araguaína carries a single named load, tracked from seal to signature rather than left to a generic delivery slot. Ramp access is held on our own credentials, so the catering uplift does not wait behind a handler's schedule to cross the apron. What the timeline below shows is the sequence itself: sealing, transit, and handover at the galley door, each stage timed against the one before it.
Between our kitchen and the stand at SWGN sit screening, escort and apron traffic, and none of them is treated as a formality: the convoy is where a load is exposed, not the galley catering itself once it is sealed. We plan the catering uplift against the worst version of that sequence, not the average one, so a delay upstream never becomes a gap at the door. Chain of custody runs from the moment the cart is sealed at the kitchen to the moment a name is signed against it at the aircraft, with the temperature logged at both ends of that run.
One sealed load, one named signature, from kitchen door to galley door.
Flight kitchen and crew meals for AUX
Airline food supplier crews cleared for Araguaína (AUX)
Behind Araguaína's stands, hot production, pastry, a cold larder and a protocol line work under one roof rather than as separate contractors stitched together for the day. Airport catering at this scale means the kitchen carries its own HACCP-run cold chain from preparation through to the sealed cart, so nothing changes hands uncontrolled between production and the ramp. Airport catering at SWGN is built to move at the pace of the rotation it feeds, not the pace of a fixed daily schedule.
The team assigned to government flight catering at Araguaína is the same named crew on every rotation, not a rotating pool drawn from general staffing. Each member carries security clearance on file, sits on a fixed access list, and is trained to the household and protocol standards that a sealed uplift travels under. That continuity is what a protocol officer checks first, and it does not vary between one movement and the next.
VIP flight catering and dietary sets at Araguaína
Royal flight catering standards per cabin at Araguaína, Brazil
Menus at Araguaína are written to the cabin and the mission rather than issued from a single fixed list, with First, Business and main cabin sets built and plated separately from the outset. Inflight catering here draws on regional produce in general terms — dairy, orchard fruit, river fish — worked into a specification rather than a fixed dish, and refreshed on a seasonal cycle rather than left static. Charter and VIP flight menus are handled as their own briefs, built around the mission rather than adapted from a standard tray. Every set carries documented allergen, halal, kosher and medical variants, labelled per passenger and per cabin before it is sealed.
First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins routed through Araguaína are plated to a written specification rather than assembled on the day, with à-la-carte and caviar service available on request. VIP flight catering here is filed against the standing order for the aircraft, so a repeat rotation is served to the same brief each time.
Business cabins
Business cabins at AUX take a multi-choice hot service built to the galley fitted on the airframe, boxed into oven-ready formats sized for that fit rather than a generic tray. Crew meals, cabin crew meals and pilot meals are boxed separately to the roster, so the flight deck and the cabin crew each receive their own set.
Protocol & dietary
Household, religious and medical requirements handled through Araguaína are documented per passenger before the load is sealed, covering halal and kosher sets alongside the full range of IATA special meal codes. Inflight catering built to those codes is produced on a separate line from the main service, so a dietary set never shares a bench with a standard tray.
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
Cold chain and HACCP for aircraft catering at Araguaína airport
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 SWGN
Araguaína works a narrow-body reference code off its single 1,804-metre runway, a profile that favours scheduled and charter movements over wide-body wave traffic, which turns catering into a repetition problem: the same tray specification has to hold across rotation after rotation rather than flex for a single peak. That consistency is what carriers using this stand as an outstation actually check for.
The uplift reaches the aircraft by sealed cart from our kitchen to the stand, with loading sequenced to the galley door rather than to a fixed terminal slot; ramp access is held on our own credentials, so the convoy does not wait on a third party to clear the apron. Airline catering at Araguaína and aviation catering handled off the same desk both follow that route, whatever the size of the aircraft on the stand.
At SWGN we commit one named coordinator per rotation, sealed carts at every stage, and a signed handover at the aircraft, so in-flight catering and airport catering at AUX both trace back to a single accountable point rather than a shared pool. Inflight catering in Brazil, run through this desk, holds to that same commitment on every movement.
VVIP catering alongside scheduled flights at SWGN / AUX
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Government and state flight catering at AUX
The 1,804-metre runway at Araguaína accommodates the narrow-body aircraft that carry most delegation and state movements through this stand, which keeps government flight catering here a documentation exercise rather than a capacity one. Protocol is filed per passenger, staff working the load are security-cleared, and the uplift for a head of state movement is sealed before it leaves the kitchen.
Government & state flights →
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at Araguaína
Our crews hold Araguaína's narrow-body reference code as the working constraint on any royal flight catering movement, sizing the load and the loading sequence to what that stand and runway actually take. Private airliners, BBJ and ACJ types among them, are boarded to a written household specification kept on file between movements, with halal and other household dietary requirements produced on request at SWGN.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at SWGN
A narrow-body reference code governs every charter movement through Araguaína, sizing the uplift to the airframe rather than to a fixed wide-body template. Charter flight catering here serves ACMI and wet-lease operators, group movements and special missions alike, with the full cabin set counted against the loading sheet and staged in the order the galleys are laid out for charter flight catering in Araguaína.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at AUX
A single 1,804-metre runway limits the wide-body wave traffic Araguaína sees, so a loading plan here is built around narrow-body turns worked one after another rather than a bank of aircraft on the ground together. Ad hoc airline catering runs alongside outstation catering for carriers using this stand routinely, with diversion catering and technical stop catering worked off the same duty roster, AOG included, across a multi-leg rotation; crew meals in Araguaína and in Brazil travel with each of those loads.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at Araguaína
Narrow-body business jets fit the reference code Araguaína is built around, which keeps a private jet catering run through the GA terminal on the same footing as a scheduled turn rather than a special case. FBO catering here reaches the FBOs on the field on the same cold chain and the same paperwork as an airline uplift, run through our dedicated private-jet branch.
Private jets →
Charter flight catering trusted at Araguaína
Flight departments on jet catering at SWGN / AUX
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
Scheduled airline
“For a last-minute requirement at Araguaína (AUX/SWGN), we contacted them as our airline catering broker. The response time was good and we did not have to manage several local suppliers ourselves. We would use the service again without hesitation. The order was complete on arrival and easy for us to check before closing the doors.”
★★★★★Scheduled airline
Abel — FBO Services Manager
“We used the service for airline catering in Araguaína on a VIP rotation through AUX/SWGN. The menu selection was good and all special requests were clearly identified. A very easy service to use at this station. The order was complete on arrival and easy for us to check before closing the doors.”
★★★★★Scheduled airline
Natalia — Outstation Manager
“For our flight from Araguaína (AUX/SWGN), the cabin order included multiple special meal codes. Each item was clearly identified, separated from the standard meals, and easy to check before boarding. That attention to detail makes a big difference onboard. Responses were quick whenever we had a question, which helped us keep the flight on schedule.”
★★★★★Private jet operator
Yulia — Corporate Aviation Manager
Airport catering facts for Araguaína (SWGN / AUX)
| Datum | Value |
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| Longest runway | 1,804 m |
| Runways | 1 |
| Aerodrome reference code | narrow-body |
| ICAO | SWGN |
Aviation catering FAQ for SWGN
Diversion catering and ramp questions at Araguaína
What operations gets asked every week about Araguaína.
Ask operations directly →Is private jet catering delivered to the FBOs and GA terminal at SWGN?
The ramp coordinator routes FBO catering to every FBO on the field and to the GA terminal, on the same cold chain and paperwork as an airline uplift.
Whose deadline governs a change of specification for a flight through Araguaína?
For any rotation here, the desk takes the lead time from the aircraft's scheduled slot and confirms how late a specification can still move once the order is placed.
When does a quotation for airline catering cost at Araguaína get confirmed?
Once the cabin count, the specification and the loading window are set, the desk returns a quotation built on those three factors rather than a published price list.
Does AUX produce halal, kosher and the IATA special meal codes?
Every SPML code, including halal and kosher, is produced on a separate line and documented per passenger before the cart is sealed.
Outstation catering near Araguaína
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Carolina
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Airline & VIP flight catering →
CDJ / SBAA
Conceição do Araguaia
Brazil · 171 km from Araguaína
Airline & VIP flight catering →
IMP / SBIZ
Imperatriz
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Airline & VIP flight catering →
Inflight catering quote for Araguaína (AUX)
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Offloading
Return leg, if any
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Contact
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Uplift at Araguaína (AUX)