Disabled Person and PRM Abbreviations and their Meanings

Code	Description
MEDA	Passenger whose mobility is impaired, due to clinical cases with medicalpathology in progress, being authorized to travel by medical authorities. Such passenger usually has social coverage in relation to the illness or accident in question.
STCR	Passenger who can only be transported on a stretcher. Such passengermay or may not have social protection or specific insurance.
WCHR	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 assistanceat 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.
BLIND	Blind.
DEAF	Passenger who is deaf or a passenger who is deaf without speech.
DEAF/BLIND	Blind and deaf passenger, who can move about only with the help of an accompanying person.
MAAS	(meet and assist) All other passengers in need of special help.
DPNA	Disabled passenger with intellectual or developmental disability needing assistance.

Source: ECAC Policy Statement in the Field of Civil Aviation Facilitation (ECAC.CEAC DOC No. 30, 11th Edition/December 2009)