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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — Cartago, Colombia
Airline catering, VIP flight catering and private jet catering — Cartago (SKGO / CRC)
CRC (IATA) · SKGO (ICAO)
One runway of 2,025 metres and a narrow-body reference code set what boards at Cartago, and it means single-aisle rotations move through one ops desk rather than a scattered handling chain. AERO GOURMET runs inflight catering, in-flight catering and hi-loader uplift here, boarding to galley height on the wide-body-rated equipment we bring airside for every rotation.
2,025 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 — Cartago
Hi-loader aviation catering on the SKGO apron
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Airport catering order window at SKGO / CRC
Aircraft catering handover at the galley door, Cartago (CRC)
Ramp access at Cartago is what decides whether a catering uplift meets its rotation, not a printed promise of speed. Every cart moves from our sealed kitchen store across the apron under escort, cleared before it reaches the aircraft. The narrow-body reference code held here keeps the routing short and repeatable, rotation after rotation.
Screening, escort and apron traffic sit between our kitchen and the stand at Cartago, and none of them is left to chance on the day. We plan the galley catering run against the worst case those three present, not the average one, and the chain of custody is logged at both ends of the move. Every catering uplift carries a temperature record taken at sealing and again at handover, closed with a signature at the galley door.
One sealed load, one named handover, from our kitchen to the galley door.
Airline food supplier kitchen serving Cartago
Pilot meals and cleared production crews for Cartago, Colombia
The flight kitchen behind Cartago runs hot production, pastry, a cold larder and a protocol line under one roof, built to HACCP standard from intake to seal. Airport catering here is planned against the narrow-body reference code, so tray sets and passenger meal boxes move to the stand without a second handling step. Airport catering at CRC stays inside one cold chain from the moment production closes to the moment the cart is opened at the galley.
The crew assigned to government flight catering at this station is a fixed, named team: security clearance on file, listed on the access list, briefed on royal household standards before any sealed uplift leaves the building. They handle the paperwork that travels with the load as carefully as the load itself, because a missing signature stops a rotation as surely as a missing tray. That team does not rotate case by case; it is the same desk every time.
VIP flight catering menus for CRC departures
Royal flight catering standards per cabin at SKGO / CRC
Menus at this station are written to the cabin and the mission first, and only then to the season: a scheduled rotation, a delegation, a charter group and a private movement do not receive the same specification. Local sourcing draws on the produce of the surrounding region — dairy, orchard fruit, river fish — worked into a standing tray set rather than a one-off dish. Inflight catering at CRC is documented per passenger for allergens, and halal and kosher sets are produced against the same written standard as any other tray. Every special meal is labelled per passenger and per cabin before it leaves the kitchen, so the cabin crew never has to guess at the seat it belongs to.
First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins at Cartago are plated to a written specification, with à-la-carte and caviar service available on request rather than assumed by default. VIP flight catering here is filed against the standing order, so a repeat rotation receives the same presentation without a fresh brief each time.
Business cabins
Business cabins at SKGO receive multi-choice hot service in oven-ready formats sized to the galley fitted to the aircraft. Crew meals, cabin crew meals and pilot meals are boxed separately from the passenger service and loaded to the roster, not to guesswork.
Protocol & dietary
Household, religious and medical requirements are documented per passenger at Cartago, covering halal and kosher sets alongside the full range of IATA special meal codes. Inflight catering for these sets is produced on a separate line and sealed before it leaves that line, keeping cross-contact controlled rather than assumed.
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-compliant aircraft catering at SKGO / CRC
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 Cartago airport
Cartago works a narrow-body traffic profile off a single runway of 2,025 metres, which means catering here is planned around one repeatable rotation pattern rather than a mixed wide-body wave. That single stand configuration turns a delegation into mainly a documentation exercise and a busy scheduled day into a repetition problem, not a capacity one.
The uplift moves from our flight kitchen across the apron to the stand, sealed and escorted rather than left at the foot of the aircraft, with our own crew on the ramp for the handover. Airline catering at SKGO, aviation catering across Colombia and airport catering at CRC all run off the same duty roster, so inflight catering and in-flight catering at Cartago share one ops desk rather than several.
We commit one coordinator to every rotation here, sealed carts logged at both ends, and a signed handover at the galley door.
VVIP catering and commercial flights at Cartago, Colombia
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Government and state flight catering at SKGO
A 2,025 metre runway carries the narrow-body movements that a delegation typically flies on, and that is the aircraft category our government flight catering is built around at this station. Protocol is documented per passenger, staff working the load are security-cleared, and the uplift for a head of state movement is sealed before it leaves the catering at SKGO kitchen.
Government & state flights →
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at CRC
Private airliners in the BBJ and ACJ class, and other wide-body VIP conversions, are boarded here against the same narrow-body-rated ramp routing that governs scheduled traffic, so a household rotation is worked to a plan already proven. Royal flight catering at this station is held to a written household specification kept on file between movements, with halal and other household dietary requirements produced against it on request.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at Cartago
Across the single narrow-body stand configuration held at this station, the 2,025 metre runway sets a routing that group charter and ACMI operators can plan against rotation to rotation. Charter flight catering at Cartago and charter flight catering at SKGO cover wet-lease movements, special missions and full three-cabin uplifts, staged and counted against the loading sheet in the order the galleys are laid out.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at SKGO
The narrow-body reference code held at Cartago governs a single repeatable stand routing, and our kitchen works that routing for scheduled and ad hoc airline work alike. Carriers running this station as an outstation draw on outstation catering, diversion catering and technical stop catering off one duty roster, with ad hoc airline catering and AOG covered across a multi-leg rotation; crew meals at Cartago and crew meals at CRC travel on the same roster as the cabin service.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at CRC
The narrow-body reference code held at this field sets the routing our loading crew works around for every business aviation movement, sequencing GA traffic against the same ramp used by scheduled flights. Private jet catering in Cartago reaches the FBOs on the field and the GA terminal on the same cold chain and the same paperwork as an airline uplift, with FBO catering and business jet catering handled by our dedicated branch.
Private jets →
Charter flight catering reviewed at Cartago airport
Flight departments on jet catering at Cartago
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
Scheduled airline
“For a last-minute requirement at Cartago (CRC/SKGO), we contacted them as our airline catering partner. One contact handled the order from confirmation through delivery, which saved our dispatch team a lot of follow-up. We would use the service again without hesitation. That made the turnaround easier for both the flight crew and the team on the ground.”
★★★★★Private jet operator
Carla — Passenger Services Manager
“Our team needed private jet catering in Cartago for a short-notice flight at CRC/SKGO. Everything arrived fresh, well presented, and easy for the cabin crew to organize before boarding. We had a smooth experience from order to delivery. Updates were timely and the final delivery matched the confirmation we had from operations.”
★★★★★Government flight department
Carlos — Government Flight Operations Manager
“Our passenger profile required special meals at Cartago (CRC/SKGO), with several different dietary restrictions. The order arrived complete and the special requests were handled with the same presentation as the regular meals. That attention to detail makes a big difference onboard. The order was complete on arrival and easy for us to check before closing the doors.”
★★★★☆Charter operator
Hector — Charter Operations Manager
Aviation catering data for Cartago (SKGO / CRC)
| Datum | Value |
|---|---|
| Longest runway | 2,025 m |
| Runways | 1 |
| Aerodrome reference code | narrow-body |
| ICAO | SKGO |
Inflight catering FAQ for Cartago, Colombia
Crew meals, lead times and access at CRC
What operations gets asked every week about Cartago.
Ask operations directly →How far does private jet catering reach the FBOs and the GA terminal in Cartago?
Our household specification and security clearance cover every FBO catering movement on the field, delivered to the GA terminal on the same cold chain as an airline uplift.
Does Aeropuerto Internacional Cartago take airline catering delivered airside, straight to the aircraft?
Every rotation here is boarded by hi-loader to galley height rather than left at the foot of the stairs, with airside delivery handled by our own cleared crew.
How far in advance does CRC need a catering order, and how late can the specification still change?
There is a standing lead time for a full menu build, and there is a shorter window for a specification change or a last minute airline catering adjustment ahead of departure.
Whose loading sheet sets the airline catering cost at SKGO?
Across every rotation, cost depends on cabin count, specification and the loading window booked, and our desk returns a quotation built on those three rather than a published price.
Cartago produces which special meal sets, and how are they documented?
The tray sets carrying halal, kosher and the full range of IATA special meal codes are built on a separate line, and each SPML is labelled per passenger before it leaves the kitchen.
At what point does a VIP, VVIP or government flight move onto protocol handling at Aeropuerto Internacional Cartago?
The sequence opens with security clearance and a documented protocol file before any menu decision, so VIP flight catering and government flight catering are planned as a compliance step first.
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Four steps
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Aircraft · stand · local time
Offloading
Return leg, if any
Order
Counts · menus · files
Contact
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Uplift at Cartago (CRC)