News - Air Vernon

After AirTran Airways announced last week it would plaster Sir Elton John’s mug on the side of more than 20 Boeing 717s to promote the launch of in-flight XM Satellite Radio, we at CL figured we’d nominate the next face of AirTran: DeKalb CEO Vernon Jones. (If you doubt Jones is all that famous, just ask his attorney, Dwight Thomas, who declared in December: “The CEO is a political celebrity.”)

As is the case with Sir Elton, we expect Mr. CEO will bring tremendous attention to the discount airline. According to Tad Hutcheson, AirTran director of marketing, “Due to the overwhelming number of calls we received since we rolled out the first plane with Elton John ... we are publishing information on our website through our official Elton Tracking System [ETS] so people can find the planes.”

We’re particularly fond of the idea of a Vernon Tracking System (VTS) - but only if the system could plot the whereabouts of the man himself. It would be tremendously helpful to trace Jones’s every move, particularly if you’re a GBI agent investigating rape allegations against the CEO.






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