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Re:United Airlines awards hackers millions of miles for reve... by netheril96 on Thursday July 16, 2015 @04:46AM (#9896035)
> except plenty of people don't fly often enough to even make use of this

Can this be sold?

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Re:United Airlines awards hackers millions of miles for reve... by desigooner on Thursday July 16, 2015 @07:19AM (#9896497)
They can probably be used for giftcards etc via the MileagePlusX program / app.
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Re:United Airlines awards hackers millions of miles for reve... by onewaystreet on Thursday July 16, 2015 @06:40AM (#9896377)
It's against United's terms to sell your miles.
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Re:United Airlines awards hackers millions of miles for reve... by jpatokal on Thursday July 16, 2015 @06:51AM (#9896412)
Not that this stops it from happening, Google eg. "sell frequent flyer miles". It's doubly risky though: from what I can tell all the companies in this space are by definition more or less dodgy, plus the airline will catch on pretty quick and confiscate your miles (yes, they can do that) if you start redeeming first-class tickets for a whole bunch of "cousins" with random names and in random places.
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