Aviation catering — Guaratinguetá, Brazil

Airline catering, VIP and private jet catering at Guaratinguetá (SBGW / GUJ)

GUJ (IATA) · SBGW (ICAO)

A single narrow-body reference code governs the one runway at Guaratinguetá, so every rotation through SBGW is sequenced rather than run in parallel, and inflight catering here is planned around that one slot at a time. AERO GOURMET provides in-flight catering and aviation catering at Guaratinguetá (GUJ) by hi-loader to galley height, boarding scheduled, charter, VIP, government and private jet flights with wide-body-grade discipline on a narrow-body field, uplift by uplift, airside.

A catering hi-loader box raised level with the open galley door of a wide-body, its platform bridged to the doorway.
1,551 m
Longest runway
Narrow-body
Largest aircraft handled
1
Runways
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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
02
VIP at any volume
8 First covers or 400 passengers across three cabins, same execution
03
24/7 order desk
Ad hoc, AOG and same-day uplift answered around the clock
04
Multi-leg coordination
One loading sheet, every leg of your rotation
A catering hi-loader raised to the aft galley door of a wide-body on stand, its platform level with the doorway and a second truck waiting below.

On the apron — Guaratinguetá

Hi-loader boarding for inflight catering at SBGW / GUJ

Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.

Aircraft catering lead times at SBGW

Inflight catering tracked kitchen to aircraft at Guaratinguetá

Ramp access at Guaratinguetá is the whole argument: the sealed cart leaves our kitchen and goes straight to the galley door, never set down on the apron in between. That single hand-off is what a catering uplift is measured against at SBGW, on the one runway this narrow-body station is built around. Every crossing of the ramp is logged the same way, whatever the size of the rotation waiting on stand.

Four branded catering carts latched side by side in an aircraft galley, each door closed on a coloured seal.

Between our kitchen and the single stand at Guaratinguetá sit screening, an escort and whatever else is moving on the apron at that hour, and a narrow-body reference code at SBGW leaves no second lane to work around any of it. We plan the galley catering run against the busiest version of that ramp, not the easiest, so the chain of custody holds even when the apron does not cooperate. Temperatures are logged at sealing and again at handover, and the load carries a signature at both ends, so a catering uplift at Guaratinguetá is accountable stand-side and not just on paper.

One coordinator signs for the load, from the sealed cart to the galley door.

Airline food supplier kitchen serving Guaratinguetá airport

Kitchen production.

Cargo crew meals produced to the same standard at GUJ

The flight kitchen provisioning airport catering in Guaratinguetá runs hot production, pastry and a cold larder under one roof, built to HACCP standards from intake to seal, and staged to the single narrow-body reference code held at GUJ. Airport catering in Brazil answers to the same procedure at every field we cover, and here that means a production plan sized to one runway rather than a bank of them. Having every section under one roof is what lets a flight kitchen at SBGW commit to a fixed window instead of a variable one.

The team behind government flight catering at Guaratinguetá is the same named crew on every rotation, not a rotating pool booked in for the day. Each member carries security clearance on file, sits on the access list for the ramp, and is trained to the household standards a protocol movement requires before it is ever asked for. That standing team, rather than a specification written once and reused, is what a sealed uplift at SBGW is actually built on.

VIP flight catering menus for Guaratinguetá (GUJ) departures

Royal flight catering standards per cabin at SBGW

Menus at Guaratinguetá are written to the cabin and the mission before they are written to a season, so a scheduled rotation and a state movement through SBGW do not end up on the same standing order. Where local sourcing is possible we draw on the produce of the Guaratinguetá region and the wider country, orchard fruit, dairy and fish worked into the plan rather than named on it. Inflight catering here still runs on a written specification for every flight, VVIP menus included, so nothing on board depends on memory. Every allergen, halal, kosher and medical set is documented per passenger and per cabin, and produced against that same paper trail, not against the day's improvisation.

A close view of sliced roast duck topped with radish on asparagus spears, glaze pooling on white china.

First & VVIP cabins

First and VVIP cabins at Guaratinguetá are plated to a written specification held on file between movements, with à-la-carte and caviar service available on request rather than fixed in advance. VIP flight catering here follows that same document from kitchen seal to cabin service, so a repeat rotation gets the same standard as the first.

A complete tray set on a black tray: sliced beef fillet in gravy with piped mash and vegetables, a seeded roll with herb butter and a berry dessert in a glass.

Business cabins

Business cabins routed through GUJ get multi-choice hot service built to oven-ready formats sized to the aircraft's own galley, boxed as tray sets rather than plated loose. Crew meals in Guaratinguetá are boxed to the roster the same way, with cabin crew meals and pilot meals kept separate on the loading sheet.

Diet.

Protocol & dietary

Protocol and dietary work at Guaratinguetá covers household, religious and medical requirements documented per passenger, including halal and kosher sets produced on a dedicated line and sealed before it leaves that line. The full range of IATA special meal codes is worked from the same documentation, so inflight catering at SBGW carries a paper trail a protocol officer can check on arrival.

The three books

A tray set on a stainless steel bench: a plated fish fillet with rice and vegetables, a bread roll with herb butter, and a berry dessert in a glass.

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Royal & Government Flights

Royal households · government · state operations

  • Plated service · First to main cabin
  • Protocol handling · security clearance
Chefs plating a long line of identical main courses under heat lamps, with loaded catering trolleys waiting at the end of the line.

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Charter & Commercial

Charter · ACMI · group · scheduled · ad hoc

  • 400 passengers · one uplift
  • HACCP cold chain, logged to the galley door
A business jet cabin credenza laid with chilled sparkling wine in a bucket, bottled drinks, a nut dish and folded napkins on a silver tray, beside a single passenger seat.

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Private Jet

Business jet · VVIP charter · flight departments

  • From 8 covers · plated forward
  • Reheat sequence specified per dish

Compliance

Food safety and cold chain for aviation catering at SBGW / GUJ

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 SBGW / GUJ

Guaratinguetá is a narrow-body field, one runway and one reference code, and that traffic profile turns catering into a sequencing problem rather than a capacity one: each rotation gets its own slot at the stand, worked in order rather than in parallel. Airline catering in Guaratinguetá is planned around that single slot, with ground handling covering the apron and airport catering at SBGW built stand by stand rather than assumed across several at once.

The uplift itself travels from our kitchen by sealed cart, crossing the ramp under escort and boarding by hi-loader straight to the galley door rather than being set down on the apron first. Inflight catering at GUJ and aviation catering in Guaratinguetá both run off that one route, with our own badges holding ramp access for the crossing.

On every rotation through SBGW one coordinator owns the load, the carts stay sealed until the galley, and the handover carries a signature, in-flight catering in Brazil held to that same commitment wherever the runway count is this short.

Scheduled, charter and VVIP catering at SBGW / GUJ

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Government and state flight catering at GUJ
Our kitchen plans every load against the single narrow-body stand at Guaratinguetá, which is what lets a delegation movement be scheduled without competing with parallel traffic. Government flight catering here covers state visits and head of state movements with the protocol file documented per passenger, security-cleared staff on the access list, and the uplift sealed at SBGW before it ever leaves the kitchen.
Government & state flights →
Royal vvip food.
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at Guaratinguetá
The 1551 m runway at SBGW governs which private airliners this station takes, and within that reference code royal flight catering runs to a written household specification kept on file between movements. Private airliners are served to that same standard on every repeat rotation, halal and household dietary requirements produced on request rather than assumed, so VVIP work at Guaratinguetá never depends on memory.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at SBGW
A narrow-body aircraft on charter, ACMI or wet-lease work is what the single reference code at Guaratinguetá is built to take, and that fixes the scale of every group movement through GUJ. Charter flight catering here covers special missions and group charters with a full three-cabin uplift counted against the loading sheet, charter flight catering staged in the order the galleys are laid out on approach.
Wide-body charter →
A complete tray set on a black tray: a hot egg and ham dish, cut fruit, breads, a pastry, a set yoghurt and a portion of preserve.
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Airline and ad hoc catering at GUJ
The 1551 m runway at Guaratinguetá takes narrow-body traffic only, which keeps every ad hoc airline catering request on one predictable aircraft family rather than a mixed fleet. Carriers running SBGW as an outstation get outstation catering and diversion catering off the same duty roster, technical stop catering and AOG covered on the same multi-leg rotation, with crew meals at Guaratinguetá boxed to the roster and crew meals at SBGW held to the same tray standard week to week.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at Guaratinguetá
On the same narrow-body field that SBGW's one runway defines, business aviation is worked through the GA terminal and the FBOs on the apron rather than through a separate operation. Private jet catering in Guaratinguetá reaches every one of them on the same cold chain and the same paperwork as an airline uplift, FBO catering included, business jet and business aviation catering held to that one standard.
Private jets →

Charter flight catering trusted at SBGW

Protocol officers on government flight catering at Guaratinguetá airport

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Government flight department

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Royal household

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Charter operator

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Scheduled airline

“Our team used the service at Guaratinguetá (GUJ/SBGW) for state visit aircraft catering with strict timing and handling requirements. The team understood the need for confidentiality and kept the order organized despite late passenger and dietary changes. We were very satisfied with the level of coordination. Responses were quick whenever we had a question, which helped us keep the flight on schedule.”

★★★★★

Scheduled airline

Mariam — Airport Services Coordinator

“We had a larger VIP aircraft at Guaratinguetá (GUJ/SBGW) and booked BBJ catering for the sector. Everything arrived neatly packed, easy to identify in the galley, and consistent with the presentation we requested. I would happily use them again on a VIP rotation. That made the turnaround easier for both the flight crew and the team on the ground.”

★★★★★

Scheduled airline

Diego — Airport Services Manager

“For a high-volume passenger flight at Guaratinguetá (GUJ/SBGW), we needed reliable hajj charter catering. Despite the large order, communication stayed simple and final quantities were confirmed without confusion. A dependable choice for group charter operations. The order was complete on arrival and easy for us to check before closing the doors.”

★★★★★

Private jet operator

Axel — Cabin Services Manager

Guaratinguetá (SBGW / GUJ): airport catering data

DatumValue
Longest runway1,551 m
Runways1
Aerodrome reference codenarrow-body
ICAOSBGW

Business jet catering questions at Guaratinguetá (GUJ)

Diversion catering and ramp questions at Guaratinguetá (GUJ)

What operations gets asked every week about Guaratinguetá.

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Does SBGW support private jet catering delivery to the FBOs and the GA terminal on the field?

Every business aviation movement through Guaratinguetá is reached on the same cold chain and paperwork as an airline uplift, with FBO catering covering the FBOs on the field and the GA terminal alike.

At what point does an order need to be placed for a rotation through Guaratinguetá, and how late can the specification change?

The lead time starts with the cabin count and the loading window at booking, and how far in advance an order should be placed depends on the mission; last minute airline catering is worked where the kitchen schedule allows it, with changes to the specification held open as close to boarding as the sealed-cart process permits.

Where does the figure for airline catering cost at Guaratinguetá come from?

The quotation is built from the loading sheet: cabin count, specification and the loading window at SBGW, since airline catering cost is never fixed to a price list and always comes back from the desk against the actual rotation.

Who signs off halal, kosher and the IATA special meal codes at GUJ?

For every passenger requiring one, halal, kosher and the full set of SPML codes are produced on a dedicated line and documented per seat, so special meals travel with the same paper trail as the rest of the uplift.

Commercial aviation catering near Guaratinguetá

SJK / SBSJ
São José Dos Campos
Brazil · 83 km from Guaratinguetá
Airline & VIP flight catering →
VAG / SBVG
Varginha
Brazil · 136 km from Guaratinguetá
Airline & VIP flight catering →
GRU / SBGR
São Paulo
Brazil · 148 km from Guaratinguetá
Airline & VIP flight catering →

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Guaratinguetá (GUJ / SBGW)

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Flight

Aircraft · stand · local time

Offloading

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Counts · menus · files

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Uplift at Guaratinguetá (GUJ)