Inflight
Thai, international and halal meals for customer airlines across every cabin, first to economy, including low-cost carriers and special flights.
Separate kitchens for Western, Thai, Chinese, Japanese, Indian and Arabian meals.
Thai Airways International Public Company Limited
A flight kitchen that turns out 87,000 meals a day.
Your satisfaction is our honour and pride.
Established in 1960, THAI Catering serves THAI and more than fifty customer airlines from a purpose-built 120,000 square metre facility at Suvarnabhumi.
- Established
- 1960
- Customer airlines
- 50+
- Meals a day
- 87,000
What we run
Complete, in the sky and on the ground
Inflight catering for customer airlines runs alongside the ground food business, out of the same kitchens and to the same standards.
Onground
The Puff & Pie bakery, the restaurants, snack boxes, off-site catering, contract manufacturing and hospital meals.
Puff & Pie has nineteen branches across Bangkok.
Support services
Aircraft handling, laundry, storage, miscellaneous supplies and airline lounge services at Suvarnabhumi.
Around 8,000 square metres of dry, chilled and frozen storage.
Research and development
Research and product development, watching industry trends and creating tailor-made products for customer airlines and business partners.
The team is drawn from food science and from the arts.
Standards
Quality, hygiene and food safety
The goal and the responsibility of THAI Catering in producing food and serving flights for its airline customers.
- ISO 9001
- Quality management, used to deliver services to each airline customer's own requirements.
- HACCP and GHP
- Hazard control across the whole production process, resting on good hygiene practice.
- Halal and Hal-Q
- A halal kitchen with its own area, equipment and storage, certified by the Central Islamic Council of Thailand.
On the ground
The brands we run
- Puff & Pie
- Bakery and take-home food baked and cooked fresh daily, across nineteen Bangkok branches.
- Aroi Lon Fah
- The Vibhavadi Rangsit restaurant, open daily 07.00 to 14.00.
- Yellow Orchid
- The restaurant at the THAI Operations Center, Suvarnabhumi, open Monday to Friday.
- THAI Catering Restaurant
- Restaurants at Phuket and Chiang Mai international airports.
Awards
Recognised from outside
- 2568Excellent Catering Service Award 2025 from EVA Air
- 2563Outstanding Food Service by a Carrier in Asia, PAX International Readership Awards
- 2561Best Economy Class Onboard Catering from Skytrax, and Most Outstanding Caterer in Asia from Asiana Airlines
Questions we get
The things people ask
- What is THAI Catering?
- THAI Catering is the catering department of Thai Airways International, established in 1960. With more than sixty years of experience it provides inflight catering to THAI and over fifty customer airlines, alongside a ground food business.
- How many meals can THAI Catering produce?
- The Suvarnabhumi facility covers 120,000 square metres and has capacity for 87,000 meals a day. There is also a 40,200 square metre operation at Don Mueang and a 1,200 square metre kitchen at Krabi.
- What standards is THAI Catering certified to?
- THAI Catering is certified by third parties to ISO 9001, HACCP, GHP, a halal food management system, Hal-Q and ISO 14001, and works to the IFSA/AEA, CODEX and QSAI guidelines.
- Does THAI Catering serve customers on the ground?
- Yes. The Puff & Pie bakery has nineteen branches across Bangkok, and the ground business covers snack boxes for meetings and seminars, off-site catering, four restaurants, contract manufacturing and hospital meals.