Originally Posted by TJQuill
Longest I've gone was a month and a half with a ticket I paid for at an overseas United ticket office. Hard to imagine that they don't all eventually make it through the system and that there isn't some sort of audit function that tracks the missing charges down at some point.
My double-booked "free" ticket never showed up on my card after several years... but then again, United.bomb was crapping out majorly that day, so who knows what kind of mess it made beyond creating two PNRs? Since they were on DL (this was back when UA and DL had that co-marketing agreement), there's even one more step in the process where they could have screwed things up with the money.