Last Friday, May 13, two passengers sure for Frankfurt (Germany) discovered that the airline pressured them to pay that quantity for every ensaimada they introduced, as revealed by Diari de Mallorca. They had purchased the sweets from an oven outdoors the airfield. The solely resolution they got to have the ability to board with out paying something was to purchase the ensaimadas on the airport.
Those affected, Majorcans residing in Germany, ended up giving the ensaimadas to the cleansing employees on the Mallorca airport however not earlier than submitting a grievance that has reached the Mallorca Council.
The solely method to have the ability to take the ensaimadas on Ryanair flights without spending a dime is to purchase them on the airport, which the Consell de Mallorca considers a “comparative tort” and “unfair competitors”, in accordance with the president of the Indication Regulatory Council Protected Geographic Ensaimada de Mallorca, Pau Llull. Some ovens have already complained on their social networks.
While the Balearic Government has not but dominated, one of many candidates for the Council, Jaume Alzamora, from MES has introduced {that a} letter will likely be despatched to demand that “Mallorcan merchandise bought outdoors the airport can journey with out restrictions or additional prices”, since that it’s about “defending the Mallorcan product made within the ovens and pastry retailers of Mallorca”.
The remainder of the airways are rather more permissive in relation to controlling ensaimadas on flights
The Regulatory Council has all the time dismissed as “unfair competitors” for ovens that aren’t based mostly on the airport, the truth that solely the ensaimadas bought in these shops might be carried free on the airplane. Although it’s true that apart from Ryanair, the remainder of the airways are “extra permissive” in relation to letting these sweets cross.