Originally Posted by
jazzmailman
Long story short, I made a couple of bookings for my wife because i wasn't sure what her schedule is like (she needs to take care of her pregnant sister), and she eventually decide on one. Orbitz claimed that they canceled my booking due to duplicate bookings (it's not). After 2 ~4 hours phone calls with Orbitz, several calls to Cathay, they are giving me conflicting information.
How many are "a couple of bookings" ?
No wonder there was no inventory anymore when some people make tons of tentative bookings just to cancel them a few hours later.
If some bookings were overlapping then Orbitz/CX could have seen these as duplicates. Hard to say but IMHO you screwed yourself royally by not being able to narrow down at least one proper date, make a booking and stick with it.