That you can buy miles from UA MP to pimp your business is nothing new,
sbm12 blogged about it some time ago:
http://boardingarea.com/thewandering...s-from-united/
What baffles me is the angle they are taking. It should be: hey invest with us we have these cool viable projects that would take off if they had some cash to burn. And BTW, as a thank you you get some bennies.
Instead its: here all the bennies, we have some cool projects but won't talk about them, fork over the cash, look nice bennies, don't you like the miles and the shiny card...?