Catering to your aircraft in Odessa.
Odessa Schlemeyer Field is a working airport in the Permian Basin, where light jets and turboprops move oilfield teams on tight schedules. Our private jet catering for KODO packs Texas food for the galley you actually have, and a cold lunch rides in the drawer until it is wanted.
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.
The Permian Basin eats like it works: early, hearty and Texan. A private jet menu for Odessa starts with West Texas barbecue, brisket sliced across the grain and packed with sauce in its own pot, then moves to Tex-Mex that survives a galley oven. Our inflight menu draws on local specialities of Texas: breakfast kolaches, chicken-fried steak, green chile cheeseburgers and pecan pie. Private jet platters of smoked sausage, pickled onions and pepper jack travel cold, while gourmet inflight meals such as enchiladas finish in the oven. Private jet snacks cover jalapeno kettle chips, beef jerky and roasted pecans. This private jet food is built for Odessa crews and passengers who want Texas on the tray, and every dish is described with how it finishes in the galley.
Texas is not one cuisine, and the Permian Basin has its own: ranch cooking, border flavors and the barbecue pits of West Texas. For Odessa we write a private jet menu around those local specialities, with an inflight menu that holds up between the oilfield and the apron. Private jet platters carry smoked brisket, sausage and cheese; gourmet inflight meals include chile-rubbed chicken and cheese enchiladas; private jet snacks run to pecan clusters and jerky. Each item of private jet food is packed with the galley in mind, which means sauce apart, oven items marked, and cold plates ready to re-plate. Texas dishes travel well when the packing is planned.
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.
Odessa sits at 3,004 feet in the middle of the Permian Basin, and the aircraft parked on its ramp are mostly working ones: turboprops and light jets carrying oilfield managers, surveyors and drilling executives who want a real meal before a long day. Private jet catering at Odessa Schlemeyer Field means Texas food built for a small galley, with executive jet catering and business aviation catering for the corporate crews who rotate through. For a head of state or ministerial visit we handle diplomatic flight catering under protocol, and every order covers cabin crew meals too. Inflight catering, in-flight catering and aviation catering are all the same job here: plan the galley, pack it, hand it over.
Oilfield managers, drillers and investors fill the cabins at Odessa Schlemeyer Field, and they want food that is quick to serve and Texan. For corporate jet catering and business jet catering we plan hot and cold items per seat. A private jet chef builds a bespoke menu, with VIP flight catering, charter flight catering and luxury inflight catering all written to your galley.
When an official aircraft lands in the Permian Basin, the menu is approved by protocol first and cooked second. Government flight catering and head of state flight catering at Odessa use a small named team, with VIP aviation catering and state visit aircraft catering handled quietly and traceably.
Special meals at Odessa follow a procedure, not a label. Texas kitchens lean on flour, dairy and shared fryers, so we separate boards and boxes for kosher, halal, vegan, gluten free and allergen free orders, and kids meals are packed apart from guest trays. Barbecue rubs and tortillas are where allergens hide in West Texas, and we check both before anything is cooked.
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.
At KODO, a rotation can land, wait and leave within a ramp slot, so crew catering has to be quick to eat. Crew meals, including flight crew meals, are added when you ask for them and appear on the invoice like any other line. Pilot meals and cockpit meals are packed for one hand, crew meal boxes carry a CREW label, and different meals for pilots are arranged when needed.
FBO catering at Odessa means we hand the order to the FBO or your handling agent at the general aviation terminal. Catering delivery to the FBO is arranged for your slot, with ground handling catering and handling agent catering coordinated so the crew meets the order at the aircraft door.
Door height settles the loading question at KODO. A turboprop or light jet takes its galley catering by hand up the cabin steps, whereas a larger cabin can call for a high loader and proper aircraft provisioning. Name the type and we plan the airside catering delivery around that door and the galley behind it.
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.
KODO is the main general aviation field for Odessa, Texas, and the Permian Basin around it. Oilfield business jets and turboprops fill the ramp, so airport catering here is built around small cabins and working schedules, and the FBO services and ground handling services on the field decide where each order is handed over.
Odessa's business aviation hub status comes from the oil economy: when drilling picks up, orders for inflight catering and in-flight catering pick up with it. Aviation catering and business aviation catering requests swing with the basin's cycles, as do executive jet catering and cabin crew meals, and the FBO services and ground handling services at KODO set the access for each handover. Diplomatic flight catering is occasional, cleared through protocol, and crew meals ride along on request with the rest of the order.
Flights arriving from abroad into Texas meet US agricultural rules on fresh meat, dairy and produce, so international aircraft are often provisioned with sealed items. Your ground handling services and the FBO services at Odessa deal with the inspection side; we tell you what to expect for the return leg and pack inbound food so it clears.
Average rating from the cabin crew and pilots we cater for.
“The cabin briefing at KODO included 10 passenger meals, a request for vegetable tartlets and a dessert selection, and instructions addressing a revised passenger count. When comparing aviation catering companies, I would look closely at meal organisation after this experience. I asked The Galley Girls for the main courses in separate meal boxes, with garnishes supplied separately for plating on board. We could finish the starters as each guest was ready, rather than laying everything out at once.”
“Timing and organisation mattered at ODT, where our order of yoghurt pots and fresh berries for 4 people involved different crew meal preferences. I appreciated the emphasis on written menu details throughout the flight catering arrangements. The Galley Girls suggested clearly marked packs for the sauces, and that choice worked well with our storage arrangement. We placed the crew provisions in their planned storage area without first having to reorganise all the catering boxes.”
“I wanted fresh fruit and breakfast pastries for 11 guests at Odessa Schlemeyer Field, packed sensibly for a cabin team dealing with an evening cabin service. I needed the snack boxes checked against the revised brief; The Galley Girls answered without sending us through another lengthy exchange. We checked the breakfast portions against the same summary, keeping the cabin team and the handling contact aligned. For flight catering services, that attention to storage requirements made the order noticeably easier to manage.”
Think in galleys, not in trays. A small galley limits what can be oven-finished, which keeps some Odessa orders simple and affordable, while a large one lets the menu stretch. How much does private jet catering cost is a number we give per menu once the aircraft is named.
Dust, crosswind or a cold front: any of them can move a slot at Schlemeyer Field. What keeps the lead time easy is that we take late changes and last-minute orders, then confirm the new handover with the FBO.
Customs apply to any food that crosses a border, including a meal ordered at Odessa for the return trip. We plan it so unopened, labeled items come back with the aircraft and nothing risky needs declaring.
Yes, within operator policy and customs limits. On an early slot at Schlemeyer Field, a sealed, labeled order handed to your handling agent is simpler than carrying supplies through the dark.
Not by default. A private jet charter to Odessa does not include meals, so we take the order separately and bill it separately. Your handling agent arranges airside access and we hand over at the aircraft.
Tail, pax and diets — a flight attendant takes it from there, day or night.
