Steve VarsanoFounder at The Jet Business

People now bring their own food onto corporate jets.

Name: People now bring their own food onto corporate jets.
Uploaded: 2025-02-12T20:42:55+00:00
Duration: 27 s
Channel: Steve Varsano
Description: In this brief commentary, Steve Varsano explains that ordering meals through fixed-base operators (FBOs) for corporate jets is prohibitively expensive…

12 Feb 2025 · 0 min

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In this brief commentary, Steve Varsano explains that ordering meals through fixed-base operators (FBOs) for corporate jets is prohibitively expensive. He notes a growing practice where passengers bring meals from their favorite restaurants, which package food specifically for air transport, allowing travelers to enjoy preferred cuisine aboard. Additionally, companies that operate their own flight crews are sourcing groceries from supermarkets such as Whole Foods and preparing custom, home‑like meals on the aircraft. The overall message highlights a shift toward personalized, cost‑effective catering solutions in private aviation.

It's very expensive to order food on the airplane because terminals where they have the corporate jets are called fixed base operators. It's become ridiculous. A lot of people now are actually bringing their own food and they go to their own unique restaurants that they like, and the restaurants are packaging them to take the food onto the airplanes. And then you can have whatever restaurant you really love. For the companies who have their own flight attendants and airplanes, these people go to supermarkets like Whole Foods and actually get all the food and prepare the meals on the airplane custom made just like you were in your house.