Airline & VIP flight catering — Venezuela
Airline, VIP and Private Jet Catering Across Venezuela
Airline catering in Venezuela runs on ramp access and hi-loader boarding straight to the galley, not kerbside handoff. Maiquetía carries a 3500 m runway, the longest recorded here, alongside wide-body stands that support scheduled and ad hoc uplift. Aviation catering reaches narrow-body fields the same way, one load at a time.

Airline Catering Stations Across Venezuela
Below are the stations we serve across Venezuela, each carrying its own runway data, reference code and, where recorded, its FBOs. Use the list to find the field that matches an aircraft type and a stand.

On the apron — Venezuela
Ramp Access and Hi-Loader Boarding Across Venezuela's Airfields
Everything below is what we measure at this station — distances, windows, who signs what.
How Aviation Catering Operates Across Venezuela
Venezuela's air traffic runs across a wide spread of fields, from wide-body capable aprons at Maiquetía, Maracaibo, Valencia, Barcelona, Isla Margarita, El Vigía, Cumaná, Santo Domingo, Tumeremo, Puerto Ayacucho, Paraguaná, Barquisimeto and San Carlos del Zulia, down to narrow-body strips serving the interior and the border regions. Airline catering companies working this country size their production against that split: a kitchen feeding a wide-body stand plans differently from one supplying a single-runway field with narrower reference codes.
Maiquetía carries the country's longest runway at 3500 metres and holds the recorded FBO capacity — J.C. Ground Support Aviation, W Aviacion, Caracas Flight Service, Loyalty Aviation and Universal Aviation all operate there, giving an ops desk several routes onto the ramp for the same movement.
An uplift ordered against a flight number and a stand moves through ground handling services to the aircraft door, with cold chain held from the kitchen to load. Airport catering here answers scheduled airline rotations, ad hoc diversions and technical stops alike, across fields as far apart as Guyana City, Guasdualito, Guiria and Tucupita.
Each station is built to take a request, confirm pax and crew counts, and stage the load to the cabin configuration on file — the same discipline whether the aircraft is parked at a wide-body stand or a narrow-body apron.
Compliance
The Same Standard on Every Venezuelan Stand
One Operation, Five Kinds of Airline Catering
Across Venezuela, the same production line supplies scheduled airline rotations, government and state flights, royal and VVIP movements, wide-body charter and group work, and private jet catering — each routed through its own dedicated page below.





Compare Airline Catering Stations Across Venezuela
Compare the stations below to decide which field takes the aircraft, which boards at galley height, and which sits closest to a production kitchen for the uplift required.
| Where | Longest runway | VIP / gov terminal | Aerodrome code |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acarigua (AGV)AGV · SVAC | 1,826 m | No | narrow-body |
| Anaco (AAO)AAO · SVAN | 1,260 m | No | narrow-body |
| Barcelona (BLA)BLA · SVBC | 3,000 m | No | wide-body |
| Barinas (BNS)BNS · SVBI | 1,999 m | No | narrow-body |
| Barquisimeto (BRM)BRM · SVBM | 2,850 m | No | wide-body |
| Bolivar (EOR)EOR · SVED | 1,219 m | No | narrow-body |
| Caicara del Orinoco (CXA)CXA · SVCD | 1,500 m | No | narrow-body |
| Canaima (CAJ)CAJ · SVCN | 2,155 m | No | narrow-body |
| Carúpano (CUP)CUP · SVCP | 2,015 m | No | narrow-body |
| Ciudad Bolivar (CBL)CBL · SVCB | 1,685 m | No | narrow-body |
| Coro (CZE)CZE · SVCR | 2,061 m | No | narrow-body |
| Cumaná (CUM)CUM · SVCU | 3,100 m | No | wide-body |
| El Tigre (SOM)SOM · SVST | 1,920 m | No | narrow-body |
| El Vigía (VIG)VIG · SVVG | 3,245 m | No | wide-body |
| Elorza (EOZ)EOZ · SVEZ | 1,200 m | No | narrow-body |
| Guanare (GUQ)GUQ · SVGU | 1,800 m | No | narrow-body |
| Guarico (CLZ)CLZ · SVCL | 1,460 m | No | narrow-body |
| Guasdualito (GDO)GDO · SVGD | 2,070 m | No | narrow-body |
| Guiria (GUI)GUI · SVGI | 2,007 m | No | narrow-body |
| Guyana City (PZO)PZO · SVPR | 2,050 m | No | narrow-body |
| Isla Margarita (PMV)PMV · SVMG | 3,180 m | No | wide-body |
| La Fria (LFR)LFR · SVLF | 2,025 m | No | narrow-body |
| Maiquetía (CCS)CCS · SVMI | 3,500 m | No | wide-body |
| Maracaibo (MAR)MAR · SVMC | 3,000 m | No | wide-body |
| Maracay (MYC)MYC · SVBS | 2,087 m | No | narrow-body |
| Maturín (MUN)MUN · SVMT | 2,100 m | No | narrow-body |
| Mérida (MRD)MRD · SVMD | 1,630 m | No | narrow-body |
| Palmarito (PTM)PTM · SVPT | 1,151 m | No | narrow-body |
| Paraguaná (LSP)LSP · SVJC | 2,800 m | No | wide-body |
| Puerto Ayacucho (PYH)PYH · SVPA | 2,521 m | No | wide-body |
| Puerto Cabello (PBL)PBL · SVPC | 2,124 m | No | narrow-body |
| San Antonio del Tachira (SVZ)SVZ · SVSA | 1,870 m | No | narrow-body |
| San Carlos del Zulia (STB)STB · SVSZ | 2,693 m | No | wide-body |
| San Cristóbal (SCI)SCI · SVPM | 1,090 m | No | narrow-body |
| San Felipe (SNF)SNF · SVSP | 1,500 m | No | narrow-body |
| San Fernando de Apure (SFD)SFD · SVSR | 1,957 m | No | narrow-body |
| Santa Elena de Uairén (SNV)SNV · SVSE | 1,660 m | No | narrow-body |
| Santo Domingo (STD)STD · SVSO | 3,045 m | No | wide-body |
| Tucupita (TUV)TUV · SVTC | 1,680 m | No | narrow-body |
| Tumeremo (TMO)TMO · SVTM | 2,976 m | No | wide-body |
| Valencia (VLN)VLN · SVVA | 3,000 m | No | wide-body |
| Valera (VLV)VLV · SVVL | 2,070 m | No | narrow-body |
| Valle de La Pascua (VDP)VDP · SVVP | 1,500 m | No | narrow-body |
Ordering Airline Catering: Venezuela
Send the flight number, ETA, pax and crew count per cabin, aircraft type and stand to the ops desk handling the station in question. Include special meal codes and any cargo crew requirement at the point of first contact, so the load can be staged against the cabin configuration on file. Airline catering services here are built around confirmed data, not estimates: the more precise the request, the faster it moves from confirmation to loading. For scheduled rotations, diversions or a charter movement anywhere in Venezuela, submit the details through the quote request and the relevant station team will respond with a load plan.
Venezuela Catering Questions
What Operations Desks Ask About Venezuela
Ask operations directly →Which Venezuelan airports can take a wide-body uplift?
Maiquetía, Maracaibo, Valencia, Barcelona, Isla Margarita, El Vigía, Cumaná, Santo Domingo, Tumeremo, Puerto Ayacucho, Paraguaná, Barquisimeto and San Carlos del Zulia all carry a wide-body aerodrome reference code. Maiquetía holds the longest runway at 3500 metres.
Is boarding done at the aircraft door or handed off on the ramp?
Uplift is loaded directly on board by hi-loader wherever the stand allows it, not left at the foot of the aircraft. This applies across scheduled, charter and government movements alike.
Can crew meals be ordered separately from the passenger load?
Yes. Flight crew, cabin crew and cargo crew meal sets are built and packed as their own line against the same flight number and stand.
Which stations carry recorded FBO handling for private jets?
Maiquetía lists five FBOs — J.C. Ground Support Aviation, W Aviacion, Caracas Flight Service, Loyalty Aviation and Universal Aviation — each able to receive a business aviation uplift.
How is a government or VVIP load handled differently?
Government and royal movements run on cleared personnel, sealed loads and a single named coordinator per flight, with protocol held from the kitchen to the galley door.
Request Venezuela Airline Catering
Submit Your Venezuelan Uplift Requirements
One ops desk covers the whole route in Venezuela. Give us the aircraft and what you need loaded, and a coordinator comes back with a quote.
orders@aerogourmet.com · operations desk, 24/7