For some, Lufthansa First Class is their aspirational goal. Using United miles, there is a (poorly kept) secret for how to get Lufthansa First Class seats: wait until the last week or even the last day!

Lufthansa only releases its first class availability to United right at the wire. For instance, I am sitting in the Lufthansa business lounge in Frankfurt right now, waiting to fly FRA-LHR-LAX on Lufthansa and United business class.

I just got an email with a special one-use code for 30% off flights on Southwest.com. The code's use is pretty restrictive, and I have no use for it, so I'll post it here because I think anyone can use it. If you use it, say so in the comments to save someone else the time of typing it in only for it not to work. If you got a code you can't use, leave it here also!

My code is CNFFQRN78T

Like I said, the code is very restrictive.

Reader Martin asks: I am trying to book IAD-CDG, BRU-IAD and trying to add my free oneway from IAD to ?? No mater which destination I choose the page always comes up with no available flights even though I check those flights separately and I can see there is availability. Any ideas?

It seems like I've gotten a similar question almost daily since I broke the news that you can add free oneways onto most United awards.

I'm just wrapping up a month-long trip; I'm already in my final city Kharkiv, Ukraine. I'll be home on Wednesday in time for a big softball game and the dodgeball playoffs if all my flights are on schedule.

There was a lot of internet ink spilled about last month's Club Carlson promotions to earn 50k points for one night at any Radisson, 44k for one night at any Park Inn, and 44k for one night at any Country Inn & Suites. So much that I haven't mentioned the promotion until now, since I try to provide unique and valuable content.

I registered for the promotions as soon as they went live as I'm sure many of you did. Each promotion had a cap on how many members could sign up. All the caps have been reached.

After writing a series of posts on how to add free oneways to your awards on the major legacy carriers, I got a flood of emails from people who had just booked an award and wanted to know whether they should rebook with my award booking service. In some cases, it makes sense, and I'll share one such case.

Brian emailed me saying he had booked a roundtrip award with United miles from San Francisco to Entebbe, Uganda for 160,000 miles in coach because for his preferred dates, there had been no saver award space.

Hat Tip to FTG

I know a lot of my readers have great travel story.

Ticket prices are based on distance and include all taxes and fees.

Flights < 501 miles: $49

Flights 501-1300 miles: $99

Flights 1301+ miles: $139

And don't forget that the above oneway prices include two free checked bags.

You must purchase by Thursday. Travel is good Mondays-Thursdays and Saturdays from August 13 - November 14.

With this summer's paid ticket prices, this is an incredible deal on many routes.

In this post, I'm going to talk about the newly loaded off peak award space to South America on US Airways including screen shots of the exact space. But first, I'll give a little background on US Airways off peak awards, the main reason I rate US Air miles as more valuable than United miles, and the main time to use US Air miles instead of United miles.

My brother and I had a trip to the Australian Open in mind and a cache of AA miles from the Citi card sign up bonanza. I had my flight to Australia booked (United Global First), but I knew the return would be tricky to book on my preferred flight, the direct Melbourne to Los Angeles flight on a Qantas A380.

Part of the problem was that January is peak travel time to and from Australia.