Since the United forum is down...
 

I figured I'd ask it here.

Earlier this month I booked a flight from OXR to SEA in Sept using my M+ miles. The res agent told me that the flight would be held for 48 hours and then ticketed. I called UA to check on seats for 3 upcoming itns and the res agent said that the OXR-SEA itn had never been ticketed, only held for 48 hrs and has since been cancelled. There is now no award ticket availability from OXR on the dates I need to go. The res agent offered to sell me a seat, but the fare is higher than I'd like to pay for a ticket to SEA.

Any suggestions?

Edited for clarity

[This message has been edited by the-ca-goat (edited 08-27-2001).]

Your post doesn't quite make sense; were you trying to obtain an award ticket, or a paid ticket? It sounds like the former. You should have been given the opportunity to ticket immediately; if the reservation was held and not ticketed, that was your choice. It was your responsibility to call back or visit a United ticketing location before the hold expired. If you did not contact United in any way before the deadline, the reservation would be considered abandoned, and automatically canceled--there is no automatic ticketing, ever.

Most domestic reservations can be held for 24 hours (fares are not guaranteed). Once a ticket has been issued for a paid reservation (there is no such thing as "hold with a credit card"--there is only "purchase with a credit card," and this means your credit card has been charged), you can obtain a full refund within 24 hours.

In any case, all UA flights out of OXR are 30-seat turboprops, and there just aren't that many seats available ...

See what you can get out of BUR.