Catering to your aircraft in Cagayan de Oro.
RPML is a small plateau airfield serving Cagayan de Oro City, and a rotation here is often short and weather-bound. We pack for your crew and passengers and hand over to the handling agent at the aircraft.
We know the galley, the diet card and the 5 a.m. re-plate — because we lived them. So we built the caterer we always wished we could call.
Fourteen years on VIP and head-of-state cabins. Can plate for twelve in a G650 galley and still land it hot.
The one who reads every diet card twice. If it says no cross-contact, it means no cross-contact.
Answers at 5 a.m. when the leg moved overnight. Same-day swaps are her love language.
Cagayan de Oro City sits between the Bukidnon highlands and Macajalar Bay, so the private jet menu at Lumbia leans on what both produce: pineapple and banana from the plateau, tuna and shellfish from the bay. An inflight menu here is built around those, with local specialities travelling as they should in a galley: the fruit cut at the last stage, the fish cooked and the sauce apart.
For private jet food in Cagayan de Oro, the region gives us a short list worth carrying: grilled tuna belly, pastel from the Misamis kitchens, native chicken inasal, and Bukidnon fruit. Private jet platters and gourmet inflight meals built on these arrive plane-side at RPML, with private jet snacks such as dried mango and cassava chips for the long Mindanao sectors.
Tail, pax, diets, timing. One message — no portal, no quote form. Answered at any hour, by a flight attendant.
Leak-proof boxes, marked by guest and restriction, with reheating times written on the lid.
Two minutes out of the drawer. Whatever you ordered for the crew comes in the same delivery, and one clean invoice follows.
Cagayan de Oro City runs on the Bukidnon fruit trade and the Macajalanon table, and Lumbia Airfield is where that reaches private aircraft. We handle private jet catering for RPML: in-flight catering built from local produce, aviation catering for charter and corporate legs, business aviation catering and executive jet catering packed for your galley. Diplomatic flight catering goes through its own protocol check, and cabin crew meals ride on the same order.
The typical brief for RPML is a short sector with few seats. Corporate jet catering and business jet catering here favour compact trays; VIP flight catering is quiet and plated. A private jet chef builds a bespoke menu, and charter flight catering or luxury inflight catering is scaled to the cabin you send.
Government flight catering at Lumbia covers provincial and ministerial visits to Cagayan de Oro. Head of state flight catering and state visit aircraft catering go through protocol before anything is cooked, and VIP aviation catering is handled by a named team with traceable ingredients and no talk of who is aboard.
Dietary requests at Lumbia follow the local kitchen: fish sauce and shrimp paste hide in many Cagayan de Oro dishes, so allergen free and gluten free trays are cooked on a separate board and boxed apart. Kosher, halal, vegan and kids meals are handled as special meals, marked by seat, never by name.
A sheet per guest. Separate boards, separate boxes.
Sealed, certificate in the same box.
Their own menu, nothing to cut at altitude.
Vegan, low-carb, light — composed, never compromised.
On the RPML rotation, flight crew meals are a request, not a default. Crew catering delivers pilot meals and cockpit meals in sealed crew meal boxes, eaten one-handed. Crew meals are billed with the order, and different meals for pilots are available when policy requires them.
FBO catering at Lumbia means catering delivery to the FBO or the general aviation terminal, handed to your handling agent at the aircraft. Ground handling catering and handling agent catering are arranged with your agent for access to the apron, with the slot as the fixed point.
Lumbia Airfield handles smaller aircraft, so galley catering for RPML is sized to what the cabin door and the galley really take. Airside catering delivery goes to the apron by the handling agent; aircraft provisioning for a larger type is agreed before the slot, with the loader and door height confirmed in advance.
Mention it when you orderCertified, inspected, with cold-chain records filed against your trip.
Whichever terminal you park at, handover is at the aircraft, on your slot.
Allergen sheet per guest, halal and kosher on request, sealed and labelled.
Itemised and trip-report ready, sent after the leg.
RPML serves Cagayan de Oro City and the wider Misamis Oriental, a general aviation field rather than a major hub. Airport catering, FBO services and ground handling services keep operations compact, so the order stays straightforward.
Business aviation hub is too big a word for Lumbia, but business aviation catering here is real: executive jet catering for visiting managers, inflight catering and in-flight catering for regional charters, and aviation catering for corporate legs. Diplomatic flight catering and cabin crew meals complete the range at a general aviation field.
Philippine customs inspect imported fresh produce, meat and dairy, so inbound food on a flight to Cagayan de Oro can be held. For the order, this means cooking locally at RPML instead of carrying fresh food from abroad.
Average rating from the cabin crew and pilots we cater for.
“A request for vegetarian wraps and colourful salads, 8 passengers, and a short ground stop: that was our brief for the departure at RPML. The Galley Girls used a readable packing list for the main courses, which helped when two colleagues checked the order together. We could distinguish the side dishes at a glance instead of lifting lids just to establish what belonged to each service. I want an inflight catering company to understand catering handover, and this order gave us a useful starting point.”
“Several practical details needed attention at Lumbia Airfield, with yoghurt pots and fresh berries requested for 10 guests and several individual meal preferences to accommodate. The Galley Girls kept the crew provisions separate from the finishing elements, which gave us control over the final presentation. It made a difference to have the side dishes ready without cluttering the galley work area during preparation. When comparing inflight catering companies, I would look closely at cabin service sequence after this experience.”
“My order at Lumbia Airfield covered vegetarian wraps and colourful salads for 11 guests, with a practical service plan needed because of a family lunch request. The Galley Girls updated the fruit plates in the written order and sent back a confirmation that clearly showed our amendments. My main takeaway from this in-flight catering services order was the practical approach to catering handover. The snack boxes remained as originally requested, which was reassuring when we checked the latest version with operations.”
How much does private jet catering cost here? It moves with the menu: pineapple platters and chicken inasal are accessible, whereas a banquet-style service for a state delegation is quoted separately.
In the rainy months from June to November, schedules at Lumbia shift often. Lead time here simply follows the slot; if you change it, tell us and we re-time the delivery.
On a government flight, uplift is usually inspected at the terminal. Food bought in Cagayan de Oro City is already cleared for the galley, which keeps arrival formalities simpler.
Customs may stop imported fresh food at Lumbia. Rather than risk it, order here: it is prepared in Cagayan de Oro and arrives plane-side when the window opens.
Catering is separate from a charter at RPML. The private jet charter quote covers the flight; the menu for your government or delegation passengers is ordered and invoiced independently.
Tail, pax and diets — a flight attendant takes it from there, day or night.
