Next time you need those “must-have” tickets for that Lakers game –just call up the new VP of corporate communications for Ticketmaster in LA and use your airline industry pull to try and get the big guy to give in.

Yes, that new big guy for Ticketmaster will be Ed Stewart, a fixture at the corporate communications department of Southwest Airlines for so long I can’t remember when he wasn’t there. But actually he was at American before making his way across town.

Ed, who has been known to call himself the “one black guy surrounded by all these blondes” has, from what we’ve heard, resigned from his position as Senior Director of Public and Media Relations at Southwest and will be making LA his new home.

Ed, you dog. Talk about a job that sounds like it has primo bennies!