The Lisbon Airport is popping away personal jets inbound for the Internet Summit

Startup founders and authorities officers have been confronted with a novel taste of first-world drawback at this yr’s Internet Summit, Financial Times reports. The Lisbon Airport has been pressured to show some personal jets away, sending flights to hunt runway house at airports as distant as Badajoz, a Spanish metropolis two hours away from Lisbon.

The problem may include the territory. Web Summit is a know-how enterprise convention that tends to draw buyers, startups and high-profile keynote audio system — this yr’s convention options talks from the CEO of Qualcomm and the President of Microsoft, for instance — a lot of whom choose to fly personal. That poses an issue for the Lisbon Airport.

“Please be suggested that there’s at the moment a scarcity of personal jet slots throughout Internet Summit at Lisbon Airport (LIS) and surrounding smaller airports,” Internet Summit organizers reportedly advised attendees. “Lisbon Airport is experiencing issue managing the quantity of visitors, leading to an absence of accessible take-off and touchdown slots for all operations.”

FT writes that this type of airport bottleneck is a primary for the convention, and certain brought on as a lot by a rising predilection for personal jets as it’s the bigger variety of attendees at this yr’s Internet Summit. Setting apart the environmental impact of flying personal, you’d assume all these sensible minds might provide you with some type of resolution past flying additional away and driving into Portugal. Possibly a jet that lots of of individuals can constitution directly?