SITA MaestroDCS Local provides the following benefits.

• Lowered costs
• Reduced staffing requirements
• Enhanced agent productivity
• Expedited check-in and boarding with fewer errors
• Reliable issuance of seat assignments, boarding passes and bag tags

SITA MaestroDCS Local is available in two versions:

1. Local
   Houses the application server and attached workstations at the same site where the service is delivered
2. Distributed
   Houses the database server at a central location, which then serves multiple sites

MaestroDCS Local includes the following features.

• Optimum flexibility, compliant with IATA standard Passenger Name Lists (PNL) and Add and Delete Lists (ADL)
• A comprehensive local database that can include flight schedules, aircraft inventory, master seat plans, priority lists, message addressing tables, passenger weight tables, excess baggage labels, and APIS data submission records
• Transmission of standard IATA messages between different reservation systems
• Passenger verification against who checked in, at what time, by whom, with how much luggage, and with which bag tag numbers

Standard functionality includes:

• Customer controlled flight timings
• Customer controlled airline and flight parameters
• Customer controlled creation of flight schedules
• Automatic read-in of PNL/ADL from any reservations system
• Automatic IATA message generation and dispatch
• Customer designed and controlled boarding card and bag tag formats
• Customer controlled standby passenger on-load priority
• Statistical counts of passengers checked in by day/month/year
• Customer access to historical data for future retrieval

Paid add-on features include:

• Electronic ticketing interface
• Real-time interactive APIS data submission – APP and AQQ
• Kiosk self-service check-in interface
• Weight and balance (through a third party supplier)

Licenses

Two types of license are available for MaestroDCS Local.

1. Single-site
   Houses both the application server and attached workstations at the site service is delivered
2. Multi-site
   Houses the database server at one site, which serves other sites as well
   — These sites should not be too far apart geographically
   — All sites must be controlled by the same MaestroDCS licensee
   — The distributed version does not interface automatically with the weight and balance add-on module
   — The multi-site model is only available in places where proper connectivity and bandwidth exist between host site and other sites