Originally Posted by bocastephen

Sorry - no other way to sugar coat it. Orbitz just plain sucks. Almost FIVE YEARS after I first reported this issue here on FT and complained to Orbitz management, the same phantom availability problem exists! Five Years! Simply inexcusable.

I should always remember never, ever search for air tickets on Orbitz.

I check SEA/OGG for Thanksgiving weekend - WOW, they quote me $380 per person! I'm going! Not so fast....

Click the link to book and we get "Because flight availability can change rapidly based on traveler demand, the flight you selected is no longer available. Please make another selection. (Message 100)"

Click another option to book - same message. Click another option - same. Keep going until every single NW flight option is gone.

What a stupid, stupid, useless website. Of course I call NW reservations and they tell me the flights Orbitz was quoting availabilty on were totally sold out - zero'd out - and not a single seat was open in any class or cabin.

Orbitz - I curse thee!