I have experienced multiple problems with new Southwest Shortcut™ pages. With the old SWA reservation pages I found the
lowFareFinderEntry page far more usable than the
main search page. The new calendar feature is a major PITA for several reasons.
- The city ease of input advantage (assuming an ultra-fast browser) is offset by the new year entry requirement. (The single line of text input front end to the calendar page that I created requires only airport codes and one or two digit month.)
- Once you enter your search your parameters are whisked off your computer into user-unfriendly/server resource wasting storage.
- The results page lacks the modify feature of the new date-specific results page.
- If you use the back button the dates that took too much time to enter in the first place are reset to the original defaults (currently "today" and "tomorrow").
I'm also finding today that the new calendar results page shows no fares at all for May, while the old calendar results page does. (Today is the first time I've looked at any fares beyond December.)