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Offering miles limits the community of bounty hunters to locations served by united. Paying out with miles is a fun idea, but the strategy seems fatally flawed
by droopybuns 11y ago
Offering miles limits the community of bounty hunters to locations served by united.
Paying out with miles is a fun idea, but the strategy seems fatally flawed to me.
- JupiterMoon 11y agoBut this far cheaper for United than offering cash rewards.
- droopybuns 11y agoThe lions share of bug bounty reporters are from overseas. I can't even remember a single submission from an American in the bounty I'm involved with. So in conclusion: if you limit yourself to just that audience, and tempt them with only miles, most americans who are competent enough to obtain bug bounty rewards are making enough money that miles is kind of a dubious incentive. So sure- you save money, but you get fewer submissions, and you get less return on investment than a bounty that pays out.
- JupiterMoon 11y agoBUT you get the great publicity of being one of the forward thinking companies that does bug bounties. Anecdotally many non-programmer people are starting to understand that bug bounty = good.
- saryant 11y agoYou can redeem with Star Alliance, which serves 193 countries (i.e., almost everywhere).
- toddsiegel 11y agoIt's far cheaper, especially since miles are so hard to redeem. United has so few seats per plane for miles users that they are nearly worthless. I have hundreds of thousands of miles on United and can rarely ever use them for a flight I want unless I am willing to make 4 or 5 hops.
- yinghang 11y agoI think most people don't realize that UA is a part of the Star Alliance, and you can redeem amazing seats/suites on their partner airlines, ie Lufthansa, Singapore Airlines, Turkish Airlines, Thai Airways and Air Canada.