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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
Airline catering, VIP flight catering and private jet catering — Rio De Janeiro (SBGL / GIG)
GIG (IATA) · SBGL (ICAO)
Two runways and wide-body stands at Rio De Janeiro (SBGL) put multi-class fleets within reach of one kitchen, so inflight catering here means sealed carts boarded straight to the aircraft rather than left at the foot of the stand. AERO GOURMET runs in-flight catering, hi-loader access to galley height and airside uplift from that same wide-body-rated ramp, GIG included, for scheduled, charter, VIP and government flights.
4,000 m
Longest runway
Wide-body
Largest aircraft handled
2
Runways
1
FBO on station
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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 — Rio De Janeiro
Wide-body aviation catering at SBGL
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Airport catering order window at Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
In-flight catering, sealed cart to galley door, Rio De Janeiro airport
The loading window at Rio De Janeiro is measured, not estimated: from the sealed cart at our flight kitchen to the galley door on a wide-body stand. Ramp access is held on our own clearances rather than routed through a delivery point at the foot of the aircraft, so the catering uplift moves straight from kitchen seal to galley without a handoff on the apron. That sequence is what the timeline beside this note records.
Between our kitchen and the stand at SBGL sit screening, an escort through the ramp and the ordinary traffic of a wide-body apron, and we plan every catering uplift against the worst of those three rather than the average case. Chain of custody runs as one unbroken record from the moment the cart is sealed to the moment it is handed over at the galley door, with nobody outside that record touching the load in between. Temperature is logged at sealing and again at handover, and the galley catering that reaches GIG carries a signature closing the load at each end.
One coordinator carries the seal from our kitchen to the signature at the aircraft.
Airline food supplier for SBGL / GIG rotations
Crew meals and passenger sets from one kitchen at Rio De Janeiro (GIG)
Airport catering in Rio De Janeiro runs from a kitchen holding hot production, pastry, a cold larder and a protocol line under one roof, built to feed the wide-body stands the reference code sets aside at this field. Production runs to a HACCP standard from sealing to handover, so airport catering GIG carries one documented cold chain rather than a chain that changes at the ramp. That combination of hot, pastry, cold and protocol lines under one flight kitchen GIG is what lets a scheduled rotation and an unscheduled diversion be provisioned from the same production run.
The team that handles government flight catering at Rio De Janeiro is the same named crew every rotation: security clearance on file, on the access list, and trained to household standards rather than rotated in by shift. That continuity is what a sealed uplift depends on when the paperwork travelling with it has to match the chain of custody at handover, rotation after rotation. Nothing about the team changes between a scheduled airline sector and a state movement; only the protocol file does.
Kosher inflight catering and dietary sets at Rio De Janeiro
Royal flight catering standards per cabin at Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
From passenger meal boxes to VVIP menus, the inflight catering built for Rio De Janeiro follows the cabin, the mission and the season rather than a single fixed offer. Menus draw on Brazil's produce in general terms, orchard fruit, dairy and fish worked into a VIP flight menu or a charter flight menu according to what the rotation calls for. Inflight catering Rio De Janeiro is written to change with the mission while the tray standard behind it stays fixed. Documented allergen, halal, kosher and medical sets are labelled per passenger and per cabin before the cart is ever sealed.
First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins at Rio De Janeiro: VIP flight catering GIG plated to a written specification, with caviar and à-la-carte service available on request. Presentation is filed against the standing order rather than improvised stand-side, so the same VIP flight catering standard repeats on every rotation through this cabin.
Business cabins
Business cabins at SBGL: multi-choice hot service built to cabin specification, in oven-ready tray sets sized to the fitted galley. Crew meals GIG and crew meals SBGL travel as cabin crew meals and pilot meals boxed separately to the roster, alongside the passenger tray run.
Protocol & dietary
Protocol and dietary at Rio De Janeiro: household, religious and medical requirements documented per passenger, with halal and kosher sets produced against the full range of IATA special meal codes. Inflight catering in Rio De Janeiro for this cabin is produced on a separate line and sealed before it leaves it, each tray labelled to the passenger it was built for.
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
HACCP and sealed transfer for aircraft catering at SBGL / GIG
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 SBGL
Rio De Janeiro handles scheduled, charter and government traffic across two runways rated to a wide-body reference code, a mix that turns a state delegation into a documentation problem and a peak wave into a capacity one rather than a simple volume question. Aviation catering Rio De Janeiro is planned against both at once, not against an average day.
The uplift reaches the aircraft here by ramp access held on our own badges, with airline catering Rio De Janeiro moved by hi-loader straight to galley height rather than staged at the foot of the stand. Airport catering Rio De Janeiro is worked stand by stand, one coordinator assigned per rotation regardless of whether it is scheduled or a technical stop.
What we commit to on this station is a single named coordinator, sealed carts from kitchen to galley, and a signed handover recorded at the aircraft door — inflight catering Brazil operations that do not change between a routine sector and an unscheduled one.
Airline, charter and VVIP catering at SBGL
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Government and state flight catering at GIG
The wide-body stands at Rio De Janeiro are the same ones used for scheduled sectors, which is what lets government flight catering move here without a separate facility. Protocol is documented per passenger, staff carry security clearance on file, and a head of state movement is sealed at the kitchen before it reaches the ramp, on the same terminal infrastructure this station already runs.
Government & state flights →
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at Rio De Janeiro
The wide-body reference code that governs SBGL's two runways is also what clears private airliners — BBJ, ACJ, wide-body VIP — onto the same stands as scheduled traffic. Royal flight catering here runs from a written household specification kept on file between movements, with royal household standards held across repeat rotations and halal or other household dietary requirements produced on request rather than improvised on arrival.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at SBGL
Wide-body stands rated for scheduled traffic at Rio De Janeiro also carry the group movements and special missions that charter work brings through this field. Charter flight catering Rio De Janeiro covers ACMI and wet-lease operators, multi-leg rotations and repatriation or humanitarian missions with a full three-cabin uplift counted against the loading sheet, and charter flight catering in Rio De Janeiro is staged in the order the galleys are laid out rather than loaded as one undifferentiated batch.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at GIG
Two runways rated to a wide-body reference code let Rio De Janeiro run scheduled sectors alongside unscheduled traffic without switching kitchens between them. Ad hoc airline catering at GIG covers carriers running this station as an outstation, with outstation catering, diversion catering and technical stop catering handled off the same duty roster, AOG included, across a multi-leg rotation, GIG ad hoc catering staged the same way whether the movement was booked months ahead or called in overnight.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at Rio De Janeiro
The same wide-body-rated ramp that boards scheduled sectors at Rio De Janeiro also reaches the GA terminal and the FBOs on the field, which is where business aviation traffic is worked from at this station. Private jet catering Brazil operations run through a dedicated branch delivering FBO catering, business aviation catering and business jet catering on the same cold chain and the same paperwork as an airline uplift.
Private jets →
FBOs at Rio De Janeiro
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Charter flight catering trusted by operators at Rio De Janeiro (GIG)
Flight departments on jet catering at SBGL / GIG
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
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Scheduled airline
“Our sports movement through Rio De Janeiro (GIG/SBGL) required tour operator charter catering on a tight schedule. The order included different meal types and snacks, but the cabin crew could identify everything immediately. A good partner for sports charter operations. Responses were quick whenever we had a question, which helped us keep the flight on schedule.”
★★★★★Charter operator
Idris — Flight Operations Supervisor
“For an urgent mission at Rio De Janeiro (GIG/SBGL), the team supported us with repatriation flight catering. They kept the menu simple, respected the special requirements, and delivered exactly when the aircraft was ready to receive it. Reliable service when the mission does not allow delays. From an operational point of view, the service was easy to manage and required very little follow-up.”
★★★★★Scheduled airline
Sofia — Flight Support Manager
“For a cargo sector from Rio De Janeiro (GIG/SBGL), we arranged freighter crew meals for the operating crew. The order was simple, filling, clearly labeled, and delivered in a format the crew could load without delay. We would use them again for another cargo sector. The final handover was simple and there was nothing for the crew to correct before departure.”
★★★★☆Scheduled airline
Bastien — OCC Coordinator
Aviation catering data for Rio De Janeiro (SBGL / GIG)
| Datum | Value |
|---|---|
| Longest runway | 4,000 m |
| Runways | 2 |
| Aerodrome reference code | wide-body |
| ICAO | SBGL |
Airline catering services FAQ for Rio De Janeiro
Diversion catering and ramp questions at Rio De Janeiro
What operations gets asked every week about Rio De Janeiro.
Ask operations directly →At what point are halal, kosher and SPML meals produced for a flight through GIG?
Special meals are produced on a separate line before general service begins, then sealed and labelled per passenger against the IATA special meal codes so halal, kosher and other SPML sets are traceable back to the passenger they were built for.
How far in advance does an order need to be placed for a rotation through SBGL?
Standing rotations are held on a fixed specification, so how far in advance an order is placed matters less than how late it can still change; last minute airline catering requests are taken up to the point the cart is sealed, provided the specification change reaches the kitchen before that seal is closed.
Where does airline catering reach the aircraft in Rio De Janeiro?
The signed handover record at the galley door is the proof: airside delivery is made by hi-loader straight to galley height on the wide-body stands, with no leg of the movement handed off at the foot of the aircraft.
Who handles private jet catering to the FBOs and the GA terminal at Rio De Janeiro?
Across every FBO on the field and the GA terminal itself, our dedicated branch delivers FBO catering on the same cold chain and the same sealed paperwork as an airline uplift, so a business aviation movement is documented no differently from a scheduled one.
Commercial aviation catering near Rio De Janeiro
SDU / SBRJ
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil · 14 km from Rio De Janeiro
Airline & VIP flight catering →
RRJ / SBJR
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil · 23 km from Rio De Janeiro
Airline & VIP flight catering →
SNZ
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil · 50 km from Rio De Janeiro
Airline & VIP flight catering →
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Uplift at Rio De Janeiro (GIG)