Catering to your aircraft in Jackson.
Hawkins Field is a quiet general aviation field for Jackson, and a Mississippi summer decides what travels in the drawer. We cook for the galley you have, catfish and shrimp included, and hand it over at the FBO to you.
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.
Mississippi cooking is built on the Delta and the Gulf, and both travel well in a private jet menu if you pick carefully. In Jackson we cook from that pantry: farm-raised catfish, Gulf shrimp, stone-ground grits, collard greens, sweet potato, pecans. The inflight menu for Hawkins Field mixes local specialities with plain cabin favourites, because a long leg still needs a sandwich somebody will eat.
Private jet food in Mississippi means a few things done well: catfish with cornmeal crust packed to crisp in the oven, shrimp and grits with the sauce apart, a chilled pimento cheese board, a pecan pie cut by passenger. Private jet platters and gourmet inflight meals can be built from these, with private jet snacks like cheese straws and boiled peanuts for the cabin. Local specialities from Jackson are described to you the way they come out of the galley, never as a brochure.
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.
Hawkins Field sits on the west side of Jackson, a general aviation field where the Mississippi heat decides half of what survives in a drawer. Private jet catering here leans on Delta and Gulf Coast kitchens, packed for the galley you tell us about, with crew trays labelled apart. Inflight catering for business aviation arrives at your FBO on your slot, and in-flight catering for a longer leg can carry cold and hot dishes in separate boxes. Aviation catering, business aviation catering and executive jet catering orders for KHKS are handled by former VIP flight attendants, while diplomatic flight catering and cabin crew meals follow the same plane-side routine. Phone and email stay open day and night, and a flight attendant picks up.
Business jet catering at KHKS is usually for a small corporate cabin out of Jackson. Corporate jet catering, VIP flight catering and charter flight catering all start the same way: the galley, the headcount, the slot. A private jet chef writes a bespoke menu around it, luxury inflight catering where the trip asks for it, plain where it does not.
When an official aircraft lands at KHKS, state visit aircraft catering is planned with the protocol officer first. Government flight catering, head of state flight catering and VIP aviation catering use one team that knows the aircraft and keeps the order private.
Special meals at Hawkins Field are a procedure, not a label. Southern cooking hides allergens in the roux, the fryer oil and the cornmeal dredge, so kosher, halal, vegan, gluten free, allergen free and kids meals are cooked on separate boards, sealed, and marked with a seat number only. Tell us the restriction and the passenger, and the dish arrives apart from the other trays.
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 a Jackson turnaround the crew eats last and fastest. Crew meals, flight crew meals and pilot meals are an on-request line item, billed with the order. Crew catering uses cockpit meals and crew meal boxes labelled CREW, with different meals for pilots whenever the policy requires. Cabin crew meals come in the same box.
At KHKS we deliver to the FBO and work with your handling agent for ramp access. FBO catering, catering delivery to the FBO and ground handling catering all go through the general aviation terminal, with handling agent catering arranged ahead of the slot.
At Hawkins Field, the aircraft type sets how the galley gets loaded. A light jet takes boxes through the door by hand; a larger cabin may need a high loader for galley catering on the ramp. Airside catering delivery runs through the FBO and your handling agent, and aircraft provisioning follows the galley you describe: which ovens, which drawers, how much chilled space.
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.
Jackson's Hawkins Field is the city's business aviation hub, and airport catering here is shaped by its general aviation terminal. FBO services and ground handling services run the ramp, and we follow their access rules.
Inflight catering and in-flight catering at Hawkins Field follow the Mississippi calendar: legislative weeks, football weekends, Gulf season. Aviation catering and business aviation catering suit corporate departments; executive jet catering fits smaller cabins; diplomatic flight catering and cabin crew meals come on request.
For flights arriving from abroad at Hawkins Field, the border rules cover uncooked meat, fresh fruit and some dairy. Catering prepared and sealed in Mississippi avoids this, and the FBO and handling agent keep the airside paperwork in order.
Average rating from the cabin crew and pilots we cater for.
“Between cabin checks at KHKS, I coordinated yoghurt pots and fresh berries for 8 guests and explained our concerns about a revised passenger count. Our brief for in flight catering was met with a sensible plan for crew briefing. The desserts came from The Galley Girls in clearly marked packs, with a packing list that matched the contents. The canapés were easy to locate, leaving the crew free to focus on the remaining cabin preparation.”
“Timing and organisation mattered at HKS, where our order of mini sandwiches and individual desserts for 7 people involved a late menu amendment. I asked The Galley Girls for the starters in separate meal boxes, with garnishes supplied separately for plating on board. The snack boxes stayed together in one group, so another crew member could follow the same plating sequence. The meal organisation stood out more than any sales pitch about inflight catering services.”
“Small packing details became important at Hawkins Field: our 7 passengers wanted roasted vegetable bowls with separate dressings, and we had an evening cabin service. I wanted clear identification on the snack boxes; The Galley Girls made the packing arrangement easy to compare with the order. 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.”
Think of it as a menu, not a tariff: the way back from Hawkins Field costs what the dishes cost. Snacks and sandwiches are inexpensive, a plated dinner for six is not. Ask for two options and compare them on one page.
A night leg from Hawkins Field is no problem for catering: tell us the slot and we build the pack list around it. Orders with a locked tail number are simplest, but a change of plan is handled too.
For inbound international flights into Jackson, uncooked meat and fresh fruit from abroad are the usual customs problems. Local catering avoids it: we prepare in Mississippi, seal it, and the handling agent walks it airside.
A repositioning leg with no passengers is the one case where bringing your own sandwich is reasonable. Anything that needs customs clearance on arrival should stay at home; for a domestic leg out of Jackson it is straightforward.
No, the charter price does not include food. For a long flight into Hawkins Field with two services, we pack each service in its own box, labelled for the crew, with oven items and cold items clearly separated.
Tail, pax and diets — a flight attendant takes it from there, day or night.
