Inflight catering- how it is important

Flight services and flight travel will be incomplete without inflight catering service. People judge the flight services by means of hospitality provided in there. Air hostess in flight treat us like guests and try to keep us with more comfort. If the passenger finds the journey uncomfortable, all the efforts made by flight planning service providers will go in vain. Regarding catering people has many questions like how the foods are prepared?, how it is bought into flight?, in some cases, flight travel takes one whole day, how the foods are preserved in the flight for the whole day?. To get answers to all these questions, look at the paragraphs below:

Process of inflight catering:

• ·        Understand the need: the process starts with a deep understanding of the passenger’s needs and requirement. It is decided by calculating the number of passenger and type of passenger. The later in the sense the nativity of the passenger. By knowing this you can make food on their preferences.
• ·        Decision from management: the management will decide what type of food to be used based in the forecasts of passengers. Then the decision can be made on the materials and utensils to be purchased and type of food to be cooked.
• ·        Transportation: all the foods cannot be cooked in the flight. Just basic cooking like heating, cooling, steaming, etc…are done in the flight. Such cooked and nin-cooked items are taken in to the flight through  the heavy trucks and trollys
• ·        Disposal of items: food items are taken in one way. At that mean time, the waste items are disposed through other way. As a flight experience number of landing and boarding a day. Proper disposal of cookery waste is must in order to provide hygienic foods to the passengers.
• ·        Cleaning of vessels: this is also the important process. The used vessels cannot be cleaned in the plane. So it is either carried through the trucks and cleaned or replaced by alternative material.
• ·        Inspection of foods: at the mean time of landing. The cabin crew, who are the part of ground handling service can have a small inspection on the catering services and food items served.

These are just the basic overview, but inflight catering is the complex chain. The process flow has slight variation depending on the country. There are number of flight service concerns having efficient inflight catering. One such concern is Ijet. It provides additional flight services like flight planning, flight support, hotel accommodation, aviation fuel supply, ground handling services, etc…. To know more, visit http://www.ijet.aero.

Ground handling services- an gestalt

There are many concerns, organizing flight planning programs and flight services. Most of such concerns are supplemented with the service called ground handling services.   The ground handling implies the maintenance of flight when it is in the ground. The function of flight is also tested when it is in landing condition. This service starts from the arrival of the aircraft to the airport and continues till the departure. The ground handling service covers many service programs like cabin service, passenger service, field operation service, catering service, ramp service. The concept of the above mentioned services and its usage is well explained in the below paragraphs.

Services offered in ground handling system:

Passenger service: passengers plays main role in all means of transport. Whatever service performed, it is done for the welfare and comfort of the people. In passenger service process, check in and checkout service, transfer counter, and airline lounges should be planned. Passenger should undergo number of verification process before landing and after landing so separate counter should be kept for uninterrupted and sequential verification. This is well organized through ground handling process.

Cabin service: this service focus on comfort level of the passenger throughout the travel. Replacement of items like sanitizers, toilet papers, tissues, etc... is done here. Professional cleaners are hired for this service. Passengers rate the flight service through the comfort level.

Catering service: this also completely relies on comfort level of the people. Catering services not only refers to the food offering to the passengers. Accumulation of food waste is avoided through handling system.  During the landing hours, the employees in there dispose all the waste out and replace it with fresh stuffs to satisfy the next set of passengers.

Ramp service: unlike above services this concentrates on the flight maintenance after landing. Ramp service starts as soon as the flight landed. The landing position of the plane in the flyover is regulated. To be specific it concentrates on the turnaround of the airplane to board according to the planned schedule. It occupies the portion of lavatory drainage, caterings trucks, air cargo handling, etc…

Flight operation services: this service is essential for proper, stress free flight travel. The pilots should be guided by the flight service about the flight traffic, temperature, level of flight, etc… this communication is got through the equipments in the cockpit. It is necessary to check accuracy and efficiency of the equipments before boarding.

Miscellaneous services: ground handling system offers some other services like supervision service, load service, cargo services, etc…

            
 These are some of the ground handling process. There are many concerns providing such type of process. One among them is ijet with some of the services like flight planning, flight support, hotel accommodation, landing permit, over flight permit, aviation fuel, etc..To know more visit http://www.ijet.aero.