{"id":168178,"date":"2025-11-07T16:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T16:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/168178\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T16:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T16:25:08","slug":"private-jet-logjam-hits-tech-titans-flying-to-web-summit-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/168178\/","title":{"rendered":"Private-jet logjam hits tech titans flying to Web Summit \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">As US travellers brace for chaos at airports across the country due to government-mandated capacity curbs, technology executives flying into a conference in Portugal face an altogether more frivolous frustration: a lack of landing slots for private jets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Organisers of next week\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/web-summit\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/web-summit\">Web Summit<\/a> in Lisbon advised speakers on Wednesday that there will be a shortage of slots at the nearby airport, which is struggling to manage the volume of incoming aircraft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cSome guests, in particular with larger planes, have found the only viable landing slots during Web Summit are now upwards of two hours drive from Lisbon, including in Spain,\u201d the organisers wrote in an email.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Tech leaders scheduled to speak at the annual conference include Qualcomm chief executive Cristiano Amon, Lyft CEO David Risher and Microsoft president Brad Smith.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Web Summit\u2019s organisers told speakers the circumstances were out of their control and apologised for being unable to help secure more slots. \u201cWe would strongly advise flying commercial,\u201d they wrote, noting that Lisbon\u2019s main airport is a mere 15-minute drive away. \u2013 Bloomberg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As US travellers brace for chaos at airports across the country due to government-mandated capacity curbs, technology executives&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,18,19,17,96534],"class_list":{"0":"post-168178","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-web-summit"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}