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.