I tried to book this itn: 1/28 SEA-CMH with a same day return.

Nwa.com would only show booking availability (searching by both price and schedule options) if I took the red eye from SEA, when my reasearch showed I could book this using either the 7am or 9am departure from SEA. I tried this on Orbitz, and got what I was looking for.

I called nwa.com support and asked about this. I was told that there is a known problem with the software dealing with same day return bookings. The "fix" is to select your return flight first, then go thru the list of departure flights and select what you want. For whatever reason, it will book it this way.

In my case, doing a price or schedule search always had me leaving on NW 154 dep 12:40am. When I selected the return I wanted (NW 1495 dep 7:07pm), the "select departure" page gave me the morning flight I wanted (NW 158 dep 9am) along with the price I wanted, $189 AI.

Perhaps this needs to be moved the the nwa.com bug thread, but I thought there might be enough of a need for a seperate post to let the "fix" be known.

In talking with the nwa.com support person, it sounds like there are some real problems with the system. I'm not knowledgeable on info tech issues, but she said the server crashed yesterday and that can't be good for business.