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If you're a woman of a certain age (that age at which you decide you never wish to pose for Playboy), you may be at the altar of All That Is Good and True praying that Kyla Ebbert's 15 minutes of fame would be up already!

If you're anyone else, you're probably clicking over to Playboy.com right now to see her sexy lingerie-clad shots (there's also a video of Kyla wearing nothing but a barely-long-enough cowl-neck shirt walking down a hotel hallway). You are probably thinking one of two things: (1) this is the first time that terrible fashion sense actually paid; or (2) Southwest Airlines (NYSE: LUV) is very, very smart.

This is the first time I can remember that some awful PR for an airline ended up paying off for both the airline and the wronged passenger, prolonging not only Kyla Ebbert's 15 minutes but also Southwest's own.

When Ebbert first was escorted off a Southwest plane for her skimpy attire (and, after begging and adjusting her tank top and skirt, allowed back on), she said she was humiliated. It was a few months later before she decided to tell someone about it; probably urged by her boyfriend, hoping to go from ordinary schlep to Boyfriend of Playboy Model. Suddenly: everyone was buzzing. It looked bad for Southwest -- very bad.

But like the Teflon Don of airlines, Southwest bounced back, apologizing to Kyla and offering a skimpy fare sale in her honor. Southwest did not get her permission to use her name in its advertising. It did not affect Southwest's prospects in the slightest.

Now Southwest is memorialized as the launchpad for the fake-blonde-who-could turn 15 minutes into too long; and it's not lost a bit of its edgy, sexy cache. Bravo, Southwest, for turning mud into smutty gold.

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