Posted on 10/11/2007 1:16:16 PM PDT by SmithL
We got caught up with racy entertainer Carmen Electra on Wednesday, along with business mogul Sir Richard Branson and Kyla Ebbert, the San Diego waitress who found recent fame after her attire was deemed inappropriate by Southwest Airlines officials during one of their flights.
What brought this unlikely trio together?
They were all gathered at Gate A-11 of San Francisco International Airport's international terminal, celebrating the first of Virgin America's three daily flights between San Francisco and Las Vegas - from "Fog City to Sin City," according to the marketing people. While Branson and Electra were there to inform and entertain, Ebbert was there as a direct dig at Virgin's archrival Southwest.
And that's not all, by a longshot. There were showgirls and a singer, and the normally staid gate was prettied up with red, white and black balloons and inflated dice. It was marketing gone bonkers, with Virgin America events scheduled into the wee hours of today at the Wynn Las Vegas, party central for the airline, expected to end with a swim in the Wynn waterfall for those left standing.
Branson, chairman of the Virgin Group and 25 percent owner of Virgin America, the Burlingame carrier just 64 days old, arrived with a flourish, dressed in a religious man's collar, a cross around his neck. Preacher Branson, ordained online for the day in the Universal Life Church, performed an in-flight wedding ceremony minutes after the Las Vegas-bound flight departed, joining Dimitrios Papadogonas, director of marketing at Virgin America, and Coco Jones, who sells advertising at Yahoo.
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Sir Richard Branson gives new minor celebrity Kyla Ebbert a lift in San Francisco on the way to Las Vegas.
Bride Coco Jones walks down the aisle of a Virgin America jet on her way to her wedding in the skies performed by Sir Richard Branson, part of the festivities celebrating the airline's inaugural routes to Las Vegas.
Branson is a great promoter.
Sure is. He’s got style.
Virgin in Vegas? not for long. Oh, you mean the airline. nevermind
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