Web vs. CTO pricing Help...
 

I am looking at doing a "steel run" this spring. I have a CS50 that I would like to use to enhance the value of the run, but am not sure if the pricing I get on the web site will be the same when I go to the CTO to exchange the voucher. Is there a way to tell before I leave???

Just FYI:
The run I am looking at is:
MKE-ORD-RIC-IAD-PIT-IAD-RIC-ORD-MKE
which prices out to $232.49 for the weekend of May 4-5. Base miles are 4284. MP bonus and double miles ORD-RIC bonus brings total to 6639.

Any help with this information will be truly appeciated. See you in the skies!!!

It will likely, but not necessarily, be lower on the web. Use www.itn.net to check the fare that it shows. But if you're going to use a CS50 you're going to have to call UA reservations and price it and have them hold the reservation and the price (until the end of the current day or midnight the next day, depending on who you talk to).

No need to go to the CTO. Call them and ask them for ticketing-by-mail. Or if you really like going to the CTO, or distrust mail, call them and make the reservation, then go to the CTO to have it ticketed.

The reservation itself stays until end of the following day. Price stays until end of current day. Note that these criteria are according to the time zone in which the reservation agent is sitting -- and many of them are in Honolulu. So if you're calling when it's before midnight in Honolulu but after midnight elsewhere, they'll perfectly understand if you say "sorry, I was looking to get someone in the eastern time zone" and call back again.

Note also that for ticket by mail, the price is guaranteed as long as they receive your cert within two weeks, and it's postmarked within 24 business hours of your having made the reservation.

pynchonesque's explanation is better and I had of course forgotten ticketing by mail. The one caveat from experience: I've had phone CSR's tell me that the "price good until the end of the day" routine is based not on where the call center is, but the time zone I'm in when I make the call. While that's not correct, rather than asking for a supervisor you may just want to call back and get someone else.