The Lisbon Airport Is Turning Away Private Jets Inbound For The Web Summit

Startup founders and authorities officials person been confronted pinch a unsocial spirit of first-world problem astatine this year's Web Summit, Financial Times reports. The Lisbon Airport has been forced to move immoderate backstage jets away, sending flights to activity runway abstraction astatine airports arsenic acold distant arsenic Badajoz, a Spanish metropolis 2 hours distant from Lisbon.

The rumor mightiness travel pinch nan territory. Web Summit is simply a exertion business convention that tends to pull investors, startups and high-profile keynote speakers — this year's convention features talks from nan CEO of Qualcomm and nan President of Microsoft, for illustration — galore of whom for illustration to alert private. That poses a problem for nan Lisbon Airport.

"Please beryllium advised that location is presently a shortage of backstage pitchy slots during Web Summit astatine Lisbon Airport (LIS) and surrounding smaller airports," Web Summit organizers reportedly told attendees. "Lisbon Airport is experiencing trouble managing nan measurement of traffic, resulting successful a deficiency of disposable take-off and landing slots for each operations."

FT writes that this benignant of airdrome bottleneck is simply a first for nan conference, and apt caused arsenic overmuch by a increasing predilection for backstage jets arsenic it is nan larger number of attendees astatine this year's Web Summit. Setting speech nan environmental impact of flying private, you'd deliberation each those superb minds could travel up pinch immoderate benignant of solution beyond flying further distant and driving into Portugal. Maybe a pitchy that hundreds of group tin charter astatine once?