I keep some legacy URLs handy, they tend not to work all the way to ticketing but if the server is overloaded these URLs can help see prices and availability. I'm not going to share them for obvious reasons! I also look at Iberia and external sites such as ITA Matrix, and sometimes use the poweruser links in ITA to make bookings. See the Tools forum for details on how to do this.

But I have to disagree about no recent improvements. Compared to a month ago the server capacity seems much better in the last couple of weeks. Bookings seem to go through now first time, which they didn't during busy times in February.