AA actually has a couple of PIL (Passenger Information List, usually posted in or near the F galley) codes for this, along with the common ones for elites and so on. HAND means a prisoner in handcuffs. ESCT is for an officer escort. Other related codes are ARMD, armed; DEPA, deportee/accompanied, and DEPU, deportee/unaccompanied.

The whole list is on the back of the forms the FAs use to record meal orders in F/J. However, many of the meal order forms used on a day-to-day basis are photocopies where they might not have bothered to reproduce both sides.