Originally Posted by
DC flier2
Yep, tried Orbitz several times over a few days. Same result. It displays the low fare and then after I enter all the booking details and try to purchase the ticket, it says that the fare is sold out but then a day later it's "available" again when I do the same search.
It's possible that you're trying to book too far out. Lots of Chinese airlines have fairly short booking windows (e.g. even 45 days is common for discounted domestic fares).