Airline codes
If you are a traveller with ’reduced mobility’, in airline code
speak you are a PRM. Well PRM’s here are some other ’codes’ you
may be known by when passing through an airport and onboard an aircaft.....
- WCHR - Passenger who can walk up and down stairs and move about in an aircraft
cabin, but who requires a wheelchair or other means for movements between the
aircraft and the terminal, in the terminal and between arrival and departure
points on the city side of the terminal.
- WCHS - Passenger who cannot walk up or down stairs, but who can move about in
an aircraft cabin and requires a wheelchair to move between the aircraft and
the terminal, in the terminal and between arrival and departure points on the
city side of the terminal.
- WCHC - Passenger who is completely immobile, who can move about only with the
help of a wheelchair or any other means and who requires assistance at all
times from arrival at the airport to seating in the aircraft or, if necessary,
in a special seat fitted to his/her specific needs, the process being inverted
at arrival.
- DEAF - Passenger who is deaf or a passenger who is deaf without speech.
- BLND - Blind
- DEAF/BLND - Blind and deaf passenger, who can move about only with the help of an accompanying person.
- STCR - Passenger who can only be transported on a strecher.
- MAAS (Meet and assist) - All other passengers in need of special help.
There is another category, which is not yet internationally recognised:
- WCHP - Passenger with a disability of the lower limbs who has sufficient personal anatomy to take care of him/herself, but who requires assistance to embark
or disembark and who can move about in an aircraft cabin only with the help of an on-board wheelchair.
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