The Lisbon Airport is popping away non-public jets inbound for the Internet Summit

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

The problem would possibly 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 — lots of whom desire to fly non-public. That poses an issue for the Lisbon Airport.

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

FT writes that this sort of airport bottleneck is a primary for the convention, and sure 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 non-public, you’d suppose all these sensible minds may provide you with some form of answer past flying additional away and driving into Portugal. Perhaps a jet that a whole bunch of individuals can constitution directly?