New to travel rewards? Here’s the perfect beginner card combo

Editor’s note: This is a recurring post, regularly updated with new information and offers. Getting started with credit card rewards can be incredibly overwhelming. Should you start with cash back or points and miles? Which card family should you choose first? Or should you try cards from different families? Will the annual fee on cards…

Rotational dining, Disney Cruise Line’s unique dinner concept

Much like Captain Hook, Jafar and Ursula, Disney Cruise Line‘s rotational dining is iconic to some but plain evil to others. When you cruise with Disney, rotational dining dictates how you and your cruise companions dine each night in your ship’s main restaurants. On the one hand, it’s a rigid schedule that takes the ability…

Hot menu items return to Alaska Airlines’ main cabin — here’s the menu

Seattle-based Alaska Airlines serves complimentary hot meals to first-class cabin passengers on most flights more than 670 miles. But since 2017, passengers in main cabin and premium class have had to make do with a limited menu of prepaid cold meals and snack boxes. Otherwise, they would have to take a chance on being able…

Is it rude to stand up as soon as the plane arrives at the gate?

From debates over seat reclining to going barefoot during a flight to the best way to deal with a baby’s ear-splitting cries at 35,000 feet, perhaps the most interesting thing about travel pet peeves isn’t the annoyances themselves, but the debates they can spark. Take, for example, people who stand up as soon as the…

United adds new route from Washington, DC, to Palm Springs

United Airlines is going long from its Dulles International Airport (IAD) hub near Washington, D.C. This week, the carrier unveiled new nonstop flights from IAD to Palm Springs International Airport (PSP) in California. United will operate one daily flight on this new 2,188-mile route starting Dec. 19. This new seasonal winter service will run through…