Fairmont Hotels & Resorts has reopened the Plaza Hotel in New York City after a $400 million, two-year renovation. The Plaza now offers 282 luxury guestrooms and suites, as well as high-end boutiques and specialty food purveyors…

Emirates Airlines has a new reservations booking designator that uses the letter P for all first-class bookings in aircraft featuring Emirates’ private suites. The F booking designator remains for first-class on aircraft without suites…

U.S. passenger airlines and the airports they serve should adopt the goal of recycling 200 million cans and plastic bottles from in-flight trash, or 25 percent of the current total, within five years, says Green Skies, an Orlando, Fla.–based aviation consulting firm. Analysis by the company shows that in 2008 alone, more than 7,000 tons of onboard aluminum and plastic used in flight for passenger service can be recycled.