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April 16, 2005

Wendy Mesley

My next step in an ongoing effort to get Air Transat to acknowledge my attempts to contact them is the following missive to Marketplace, a CBC television consumer affairs program. As an entirely separate issue is my decades long infatuation with Wendy Mesley. She is the bomb. I am pretty much convinced she will come to my rescue.

Dear Marketplace,

I have been trying to get Air Transat to reply to my concerns about the safety of their aircraft for more than a month. Given that a rudder fell off one of their flights from Cuba (images linked below) and that I am scheduled to fly on one of their Airbus A310s (maybe the same A310) in May I think it would be reasonable for them to at least acknowledge my email. I have spoken with the Canadian Transportation Safety Board and they can do nothing. I believe I am not the only consumer in this situation and so I am passing the following links on to you:

Airbus A310

Air Transat update

Another Air Transat update

These are posts at my blog where I have raised the issue in the blogosphere. The site receives a quarter million page views a month. This does not mean Air Transat is prepared to answer my email but it does give me some small satisfaction.

Thank you for your consideration.

Update: I am looking for on-line video footage that will give Flea-readers outside Canada an idea of Wendy Mesley in action. She is always courteous, professional and well spoken! Some unscrupulous folks may have attempted to game search engines with mischievous expressions such as "Wendy Mesley nude" but here at the Flea it is only the high road of internet citizen journalism. Take this interesting fact, for example. Wendy Mesley's favourite book is reported to be "The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe". Good choice!

"What touched me most was that the hero was a girl, Lucy," says Mesley. "And even though Lucy had this loving family, she was still very much an iconoclast -- she felt it was her against the world. And the notion that a little girl could be different and sort of go against the grain has stuck with me." (Mesley confesses she used to hide in the back of her closet pretending she was Lucy, but that nothing exciting ever happened.) "I guess as a journalist you always feel like a little bit of a crusader trying to influence the world and be prepared to take on the giants and strange creatures."

Who has not hidden at the back of a wardrobe hoping for a trip to Narnia? I had two wardrobes at my house in Manchester but both seemed to be malfunctioning (thus the Manchester part).

Update: Aha! The Marketplace website archives plenty of its segments including a piece on freecycling featuring Wendy Mesley with a parrot on her shoulder and her Buying into Sexy piece on marketing to tweens that features must-see Toronto landmark, the Dufferin Mall. I must forward that second bit to a friend of mine who is writing her doctoral dissertation on tween marketing and media. I watched part of of this piece when it was aired and, as much as I like Clifton Joseph, was disturbed by the rhetoric around women's virtue elicited by his interview with some young men.

Go get Air Transat, please!

Posted by Ghost of a flea at April 16, 2005 03:18 PM

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To prevent embarrasing her people (or maybe herself!) reading this blog, I'll just say euphemistically: She looks okay, and here's to hope she'll come to your rescue.

Posted by: alfons at April 17, 2005 07:44 AM

That. Smile!
I'm. Melting.

(I need to ask Arthur, a PR in Canada, about her.)

Posted by: alfons at April 17, 2005 09:46 AM

Thanks for the pointers, but uh-oh: Get well soon, Wendy!

Posted by: alfons at April 17, 2005 03:34 PM