UAM.OP.MVCA.155 Carriage of special categories of passengers (SCPs)

GENERAL Persons requiring special conditions, assistance and/or devices when carried on a flight should be considered SCPs, including at least:

(a)persons with reduced mobility (PRMs) who, without prejudice to Regulation (EC) No 1107/2006, are understood to be any person whose mobility is reduced due to any physical disability, sensory or locomotory, permanent or temporary, intellectual disability or impairment, any other cause of disability, or age;

(b)infants and unaccompanied children; and

(c)deportees, inadmissible passengers or prisoners in custody.

PROCEDURES OF THE VCA OPERATOR

(a)The procedures of the VCA operator for the carriage of SCPs should be based on the assessment of the safety risks inherent to the carriage of SCPs during flight operations and should take into account whether:

(1)only some seats in the VCA permit direct access to an emergency exit; or

(2)each seat in the VCA permits direct access to an emergency exit. In the first case, the operator’s procedure should contain instructions that do not allow SCPs to be allocated to emergency exit seats or to occupy them. In the second case, the operator’s procedure should contain instructions on the allocation of emergency exit seats to SCPs or their occupation by SCPs, ensuring among other things that the flight crew is not impeded in carrying out their duties.

(b)The operator’s procedures should contain instructions with regard to the number of SCPs that may be carried on board simultaneously.

MEANING OF ‘SEAT THAT PERMITS DIRECT ACCESS’ A passenger seat that permits direct access is the first seat inboard of the emergency exit.