Concerning Maestro: ALPA is getting "in a tizziy" or "its panties in a wad" as some of you point out because it is a blatant violation of our contract to have implemented this without ALPA approval. The system clearly was not ready for full implementation, yet it was made live anyway.

People not able to check in, getting locked out of the system, Captains not able to verify their crews and their legality, inabliity to track reserves to verify if scheduling is giving out legal assignments, etc...

I think Maestro will be a great system, but it should not have gone live until it was fully up and ready and was agreed upon by both the company and ALPA per our contract. We have to hold them to our contract. If we let them chip away at one section, they will chip away at others. We have to stand our ground, otherwise our contract isn't worth the paper its written on.