The new site seems slow because there are graphics and calendars to muddle through. I think speed is more important than other factors.

A couple of other observations in general and after reading the WIKI:
1. I cannot find a feature which tells you where your flight is coming from, eg to be used to track the currently planned inbound aircraft status. I know their can be equipment swapps but I would like to see the inbound aircraft currently planned for use. It would also be neat if the aircraft# were displayed. For a good example of such an implimentation see:
http://pda.continental.com

2. When you display an itinerary, you should have all available transaction options from with in the itinerary such as check in, change flight, cancel itinerary, cancel boarding pass, etc. I think for something like cancel boarding pass you have to still go under travel tools and then manually enter in the confirmation#. Perhaps you could put a combo box in with all of the itinerary related functions that one might do on a particular PNR;

3. In boarding passes there is no alt-text to show the boarding group and possibly the position number. The alt-text (I looked at the source) is just "";

4. There should be automation where a pax can sign up for flight alert messages, perhaps through their RR account. You should not have to manually set up a flight alert for each flight;

5. Under the RR account a pax should be able to track their available TTF. Probably people on Flyertalk for the most part keep track of their TTF but I think this would be especially helpful for the general public;

6. On the mobile site it does not appear that you can use TTF to buy a ticket. Perhaps you don't want it on the main screen but there should be a control to access that option. Also again if unused TTF's were tied to the RR account you could even perhaps have a checkbox to "use oldest TTF First," etc.

7. It would be good if you enabled functionality with SMS messages eg to check in, cancel your boarding pass, or book the next available flight. I find SMS is a lot quicker and de-cluttered and faster than having to even use moble web sites on my phone.

The theme here obviously is that I would prefer you spend your time on new actual features and functionality enhancements, and less time on the look of the page or the graphics/calendars which numerous reports indicate may slow performance. A lot of pages these days are written too heavy, to web 2.0 too GUI.

I for one miss the command line for booking trips I used to use Easy Sabre, as well as System One for the most part when I worked as a travel agent. If you really know your command line and can string commands together your a lot faster than GUI , and you don't have that overhead of graphics and nonfunctional clutter. OT, I don't know that its "good" that all these systems and jobs can now be done with so little training and knowledge. I feel like in the old days you had to really know the system and invest in learning it. But once you knew it, you really knew it.