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Wide-body & private jet
From a light jet to a full 777, one caterer, one standard
Aviation catering — La Mina-Maicao, Colombia
Hi-loader airline catering, VIP flight catering and private jet catering at La Mina-Maicao (SKLM / MCJ)
MCJ (IATA) · SKLM (ICAO)
Our crews run inflight catering out of one narrow-body reference stand at La Mina-Maicao, boarding the aircraft this field actually takes rather than promising a wide-body apron it does not have. We hold in-flight catering to the same specification whatever the airframe, loading by hi-loader to galley height for the uplift this runway and this stand can support.
1,486 m
Longest runway
Narrow-body
Largest aircraft handled
1
Runways
02
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 — La Mina-Maicao
Inflight catering loaded to galley height at SKLM / MCJ
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
Airport catering order window at La Mina-Maicao
Aircraft catering handover at the galley door, La Mina-Maicao, Colombia
MCJ works from a single narrow-body stand, so the loading window is built around one rotation at a time rather than a bank of gates. Every cart that leaves our kitchen for La Mina-Maicao is booked against ramp access before it moves, and the hi-loader is staged so the galley door opens the moment clearance is given. Nothing is estimated: the catering uplift for this station is timed from seal to signature on the apron.
Between our kitchen and the single stand at La Mina-Maicao sit screening, an escort through the apron and whatever traffic the narrow-body slot brings that day. We plan the catering uplift against the worst of those, not the average, because a one-stand field has no second route if the first is blocked. The galley catering itself is sealed before the cart leaves the building and never opened again until the crew breaks the seal on board.
Temperatures are logged twice: once at sealing in the kitchen, once at handover on the ramp at MCJ, so the chain of custody has two timestamps rather than one claim. The escort signs at the aircraft, not before, closing the load against the same sheet that opened it. That signature is what a protocol officer or an ops desk actually checks.
Nothing on this route is informal: the same named team works the seal, the escort and the handover on every rotation through SKLM.
One seal, one escort, one signature, from our kitchen to the aircraft door.
Flight kitchen and crew meals for La Mina-Maicao
Airline food supplier crews cleared for SKLM / MCJ
The flight kitchen behind La Mina-Maicao runs hot production, pastry, a cold larder and a protocol line under one roof, sized to a narrow-body reference field rather than to a wide-body bank. Airport catering at MCJ moves off that single production line onto the one stand this runway serves, so the cold chain never runs longer than it has to. HACCP governs every stage of that line, from the cold larder to the cart that leaves for La Mina-Maicao, and airport catering here is written to that standard on every rotation, not only the large ones.
The team that handles government flight catering at La Mina-Maicao is the same named crew every rotation: security clearance on file, on the access list, trained to household service standards and to the paperwork a sealed uplift carries. That roster does not change rotation to rotation, which is what a protocol desk checks before it books a slot at SKLM. Nothing about the load is improvised: the specification is written once and followed the same way each time it is worked.
Halal airline meals and special meals at SKLM
VVIP catering to a written specification at La Mina-Maicao
Menus for La Mina-Maicao are written to the cabin and the mission first, then adjusted for the season, drawing where possible on the dairy, fish and orchard produce of this part of Colombia rather than a fixed national menu. Inflight catering at MCJ moves from passenger meal boxes on a narrow-body rotation up to a full VVIP specification on the same production line, without a change of standard between the two. Every set is documented per passenger: allergen declarations, halal and kosher requirements, and any medical restriction filed against the seat number before the cart is sealed. The cabin card, the crew card and the protocol card that follow set out how each of those is built.
First & VVIP cabins
First and VVIP cabins at La Mina-Maicao are plated to a written specification, with à-la-carte and caviar service available on request rather than fixed to one set. VIP flight catering here is filed against the standing order at SKLM, so a repeat rotation is served the same way each time it lands.
Business cabins
Business cabins at MCJ take multi-choice hot service in oven-ready formats sized to the galley fitted on this reference field, boxed as tray sets ready for immediate service. Crew meals, cabin crew meals and pilot meals are boxed separately from the passenger load and rostered against the same manifest.
Protocol & dietary
Household, religious and medical requirements are documented per passenger for every departure from La Mina-Maicao, covering halal and kosher sets and the full range of IATA special meal codes. Inflight catering built to an SPML code is produced on a separate line at MCJ and sealed before it leaves that line.
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 control for flight catering at La Mina-Maicao 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.
Aircraft catering delivered airside at La Mina-Maicao (MCJ)
La Mina-Maicao runs on a single narrow-body reference stand, which turns every rotation into a scheduling question rather than a capacity one: one aircraft on the ramp at a time means the loading sequence has to be exact, because there is no adjacent stand to fall back on if a cart runs late. A delegation movement or a charter diversion through this field is worked the same way as a scheduled service, just with the protocol file added to the same loading sheet.
The uplift reaches the aircraft here by hi-loader, staged from our kitchen to the one stand this runway serves, with the loading crew on the apron before the aircraft is fully parked. Airline catering at SKLM and aviation catering in Colombia more broadly both depend on that same short route: airport catering at MCJ has no long taxi to plan around, only a single, repeatable path from cart to galley door. In-flight catering at MCJ is loaded on that path every time, whatever the operator.
One coordinator holds the rotation from seal to signature, on carts that are never opened between the kitchen and the aircraft.
Commercial aviation catering for every mission at SKLM / MCJ
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Government and state flight catering at La Mina-Maicao
A head of state aircraft using the single stand at MCJ is worked exactly as any other rotation is worked here, because a one-stand field has no separate apron to move official traffic onto. Government flight catering at La Mina-Maicao covers state visits and delegation movements with the protocol file documented per passenger, security-cleared staff on the load, and the uplift sealed before it leaves our kitchen.
Government & state flights →
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Royal and VVIP flight catering at SKLM
On the runway that serves La Mina-Maicao, a private airliner is boarded to the same written household specification kept on file between movements, whether it is a BBJ, an ACJ or a wide-body VIP configuration on a rotation through this field. Royal flight catering at MCJ holds that standard across repeat visits, with halal and other household dietary requirements produced on request and the catering staged on the single stand this runway serves.
Royal & VVIP flights →
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Charter and ACMI flight catering at MCJ
Sequencing a group movement through one narrow-body stand is the constraint every charter through SKLM has to work around, since there is no second stand to stage a delayed cart against. Charter flight catering at La Mina-Maicao serves ACMI and wet-lease operators, group movements and special missions with a full three-cabin uplift counted against the loading sheet, and charter flight catering at MCJ is staged in the order the galleys are laid out rather than in the order the carts arrive.
Wide-body charter →
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Airline and ad hoc catering at La Mina-Maicao
A narrow-body reference stand is what SKLM offers every operator that lands here, and it is enough to carry a scheduled outstation programme as well as the work that arrives without warning. Ad hoc airline catering at La Mina-Maicao covers outstation catering for carriers running this field as a base, diversion catering when a rotation lands unplanned, and technical stop catering worked off the same duty roster, with ad hoc catering at MCJ moving through the identical loading sequence as a booked departure, crew meals boxed alongside the passenger load whether the aircraft was expected or not.
Commercial airlines →
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Private jet and FBO catering at SKLM
The runway here measures 1,486 metres, which sets the class of business aircraft the GA terminal and the FBOs on the field can actually receive at La Mina-Maicao. Private jet catering at MCJ is delivered to that terminal and to the ramp handler working it, on the same cold chain and the same paperwork as an airline uplift, with FBO catering covering business aviation catering and business jet catering alike.
Private jets →
Aviation catering trusted by operators at SKLM / MCJ
Protocol officers on government flight catering at MCJ
Government flight department
Royal household
Charter operator
Scheduled airline
“Our sports movement through La Mina-Maicao (MCJ/SKLM) required football club charter catering on a tight schedule. Final numbers changed late and the team adjusted without making the process difficult. We would book them again for another team movement. From an operational point of view, the service was easy to manage and required very little follow-up.”
★★★★★Charter operator
Amir — Crew Operations Coordinator
“We arranged repatriation flight catering at La Mina-Maicao (MCJ/SKLM) for a non-routine passenger movement. The team understood that reliability mattered more than complexity and stayed flexible until uplift. Reliable service when the mission does not allow delays. That made the turnaround easier for both the flight crew and the team on the ground.”
★★★★☆Scheduled airline
Arjun — Station Performance Manager
“Our freighter crew needed cargo crew meals at La Mina-Maicao (MCJ/SKLM) during a short turnaround. Meals arrived on time and were packed practically for a working crew rather than over-presented. Simple, efficient, and on time. From an operational point of view, the service was easy to manage and required very little follow-up.”
★★★★★Private jet operator
Samuel — VIP Trip Manager
Outstation catering data for La Mina-Maicao (SKLM / MCJ)
| Datum | Value |
|---|---|
| Longest runway | 1,486 m |
| Runways | 1 |
| Aerodrome reference code | narrow-body |
| ICAO | SKLM |
Business jet catering questions at SKLM
Pilot meals and loading questions at SKLM
What operations gets asked every week about La Mina-Maicao.
Ask operations directly →Which factors set airline catering cost at La Mina-Maicao?
The loader, the cart configuration and the route from our kitchen to the single stand at SKLM all feed into a quotation, since we publish no fixed price list. Cabin count, specification and the loading window booked for the rotation are the three inputs the desk asks for first.
What does airside delivery look like for airline catering at MCJ?
We load by hi-loader to galley height on the narrow-body stand this runway serves, moving the cart from our kitchen straight onto the ramp without a kerb-side handoff. Airside delivery here is the same for a scheduled service, a charter or a diversion.
Does SKLM allow last minute airline catering, and how far in advance should an order be placed?
Every rotation is booked against a stated lead time, with the specification held open until close to departure for changes that fit inside the loading window. Each order is confirmed against the single stand this field serves, so timing is fixed early even when the menu detail is not.
Are halal, kosher and other special meal codes produced for flights through La Mina-Maicao?
The coordinator on duty documents every SPML request per passenger before the cart is sealed, covering halal, kosher and the full IATA special meal code set. Those trays are produced on a separate line at MCJ and boxed apart from the standard passenger load.
Where does private jet catering reach the FBOs and the GA terminal at La Mina-Maicao?
The same loading sheet and seal record that covers an airline uplift covers FBO catering delivered to the GA terminal and the ramp handler on this field. That paperwork is what proves the cold chain held from our kitchen to the aircraft door.
Inflight catering at other airports near La Mina-Maicao
RCH / SKRH
Riohacha
Colombia · 58 km from La Mina-Maicao
Airline & VIP flight catering →
MAR / SVMC
Maracaibo
Venezuela · 112 km from La Mina-Maicao
Airline & VIP flight catering →
VUP / SKVP
Valledupar
Colombia · 121 km from La Mina-Maicao
Airline & VIP flight catering →
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Four steps
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Aircraft · stand · local time
Offloading
Return leg, if any
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Counts · menus · files
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Uplift at La Mina-Maicao (MCJ)