Aviation catering — Tarauacá, Brazil
Wide-body airline catering, VIP & private jet catering at Tarauacá (SBTK / TRQ)
TRQ (IATA) · SBTK (ICAO)
A narrow-body reference code at Tarauacá governs every hi-loader run, and the aircraft working this apron board straight from that stand geometry rather than at the foot of the aircraft. Inflight catering here moves under that same constraint, with uplift staged for a single ramp position, so in-flight catering at this station is planned around one loading sequence, not several.


On the apron — Tarauacá
Aviation catering boarded by hi-loader at SBTK
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Airport catering order window at Tarauacá
Aviation catering from sealed cart to galley door at Tarauacá, Brazil
A single narrow-body reference code sets the loading window at Tarauacá, because every uplift runs through the same stand geometry with no second position to fall back on. Ramp access is held on our own clearance rather than requested on the day, which keeps the sealed cart moving the moment the apron clears. That sequence, kitchen to galley door, is what the timeline below actually measures at Tarauacá.

Between our flight kitchen and the single stand at SBTK sit screening, an escort, and whatever else is working the apron that hour, and the catering uplift is planned against the busiest version of that ramp, not the easiest. Galley catering only moves once the escort clears it onto the apron, and the cart is sealed before that convoy starts, not after. Temperature is logged at sealing and logged again at handover, and the same signature that opens the load closes it.
One sealed cart, one signature, from the kitchen seal to the galley door.
Airline food supplier for TRQ rotations

Crew meals and passenger sets from one kitchen at SBTK / TRQ
The flight kitchen behind TRQ runs hot production, pastry, a cold larder and a protocol line under one roof, built to hold HACCP standard across every batch before it is sealed for the stand. Airport catering at Tarauacá is produced to that one standard whatever the mission, and airport catering leaving the door is logged against the same cold chain from tray to cart. A single narrow-body stand at SBTK means one production run per rotation, not several competing ones.
The team that handles government flight catering at Tarauacá is the same named crew every rotation: security clearance on file, on the access list, and trained to the household standards a royal or state movement expects. That team also carries the chain of custody paperwork that travels with a sealed uplift, signed at the kitchen and signed again at the aircraft. One narrow-body stand means one crew working one sequence, never a rota split across parallel loads.
VIP flight catering and dietary sets at SBTK
VVIP catering written per mission at Tarauacá
Menus for Tarauacá are written to the cabin and the mission first, then adjusted to the season, drawing on the produce of the surrounding Brazilian region for dairy, fish and fruit rather than a fixed international list. Inflight catering at SBTK follows that same brief across a VIP flight menu, a charter flight menu, or a standard rotation, with nothing plated that has not been specified in advance. Allergen, halal, kosher and medical requirements are documented per passenger and per cabin, never assumed from a generic template. Each tray is labelled against that specification before it leaves the kitchen, not checked against it afterwards.

First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins boarded at Tarauacá carry VIP flight catering plated to a written specification, with à-la-carte and caviar service available on request rather than fixed to a set menu. Every plate is checked against that specification before the hi-loader lifts it to the galley door at TRQ.

Business cabins
Business cabins at SBTK 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, cabin crew meals and pilot meals are boxed separately to the roster, kept apart from the passenger load throughout.

Protocol & dietary
Protocol and dietary requirements at Tarauacá are documented per passenger, covering halal and kosher sets alongside the full range of IATA special meal codes. Produced on a separate line and sealed before it leaves that line, this inflight catering is built to travel with its own paperwork, not to be identified later on the cart.
The three books

01
Royal & Government Flights
Royal households · government · state operations
- Plated service · First to main cabin
- Protocol handling · security clearance

02
Charter & Commercial
Charter · ACMI · group · scheduled · ad hoc
- 400 passengers · one uplift
- HACCP cold chain, logged to the galley door

03
Private Jet
Business jet · VVIP charter · flight departments
- From 8 covers · plated forward
- Reheat sequence specified per dish
Compliance
Aircraft catering food safety at Tarauacá airport
Catering uplift planned stand by stand at Tarauacá (TRQ)
Tarauacá carries scheduled, charter and government movements across a single narrow-body stand, which turns every delegation into a documentation task and every peak arrival into a capacity task worked on one apron position rather than several. That single reference code means catering plans against the tightest possible sequence, not the average one.
The uplift reaches the aircraft by hi-loader from our flight kitchen, staged for airside delivery the moment ramp access clears, with our own loading crew on the apron rather than a handover at the perimeter. Aviation catering at Tarauacá is worked to that one sequence every rotation, and inflight catering, in-flight catering in Tarauacá and airport catering in Brazil all run off the same ops desk rather than separate ones.
One coordinator owns the load from seal to signature, with a sealed cart and a signed handover closing every rotation worked at this station.
Royal flight catering and scheduled uplifts at SBTK / TRQ





Charter flight catering reviewed at Tarauacá airport
Flight departments on jet catering at TRQ

Government flight department

Royal household

Charter operator
.jpeg)
Scheduled airline
“Our team used the service at Tarauacá (TRQ/SBTK) for royal flight 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. Reliable, discreet, and easy to work with. The order was complete on arrival and easy for us to check before closing the doors.”
★★★★★Scheduled airline
Aya — Station Operations Supervisor
“We ordered VIP airliner catering for our aircraft at Tarauacá (TRQ/SBTK) and the result was very good. They followed our plating notes closely and made the final setup easy for the cabin crew. 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.”
★★★★★Private jet operator
Omar — VIP Charter Manager
“Our charter program used the service at Tarauacá (TRQ/SBTK) for hajj flight catering. Packaging was practical for the cabin and the uplift arrived in good order for departure. The operation ran smoothly from order to uplift. From an operational point of view, the service was easy to manage and required very little follow-up.”
★★★★☆Government flight department
Jose — Protocol Operations Officer
Aircraft catering station data for Tarauacá (SBTK / TRQ)
| Datum | Value |
|---|---|
| Longest runway | 1,130 m |
| Runways | 1 |
| Aerodrome reference code | narrow-body |
| ICAO | SBTK |
Business jet catering questions at SBTK
Diversion catering and ramp questions at SBTK
What operations gets asked every week about Tarauacá.
Ask operations directly →Given the single narrow-body stand at Tarauacá, do you deliver airline catering airside, and how does the uplift reach the aircraft here?
There is one ramp position at Tarauacá, and airside delivery runs from our flight kitchen straight to that stand by hi-loader, boarded to galley height rather than left at the foot of the aircraft.
Do you publish a fixed rate for airline catering at Tarauacá Airport?
Yes, by quotation only, since airline catering cost here depends on cabin count, the specification chosen and the loading window booked for that rotation.
Can TRQ handle VIP, VVIP and government flights, and under what protocol?
One narrow-body stand carries all of it, with VIP flight catering and government flight catering both run under a documented protocol, security-cleared staff and a sealed handover.
Which lead time applies at SBTK, and how late can a specification still change?
The sealed cart and its escorted route set the lead time, so how far in advance an order is confirmed decides how late a change can still be worked, down to last minute airline catering ahead of departure.
What halal, kosher and special meal codes does Tarauacá produce, and how are they documented?
We produce halal and kosher sets along with the full range of SPML codes on a separate line, with each special meal labelled and sealed per passenger before it leaves the kitchen.
Commercial aviation catering near Tarauacá
Inflight catering quote for Tarauacá
Request a quote
Send us your catering needs for TRQ
Tarauacá (TRQ / SBTK)
Give us the aircraft and what goes on board. A coordinator comes back with a quote for Tarauacá, 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