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"Some flights have had to land up to two hours away from the Portuguese capital."

How embarrassing!

>Setting aside the environmental impact of flying private, you'd think all those brilliant minds could come up with some kind of solution beyond flying further away and driving into Portugal. Maybe a jet that hundreds of people can charter at once?

Seems like there's a business model here -- create a company that owns large aircraft and have some kind of booking engine that lets people book seats on those airplanes. Maybe have those planes travel on a fixed schedule to let people plan travel in advance.

Gee and I was hoping it was a political decision.
The Cannes Film festival has the same problem. Flying in to your yacht on some tiny private airport. Those people could wait hours to get a spot
The funniest thing here is how very convenient Lisbon Airport is for the convention centre they're using. People coming in on commercial jets have a 15 minute journey by public transport/walking or 10 minute drive there. Meanwhile, the private jet people have a two hour drive. A small price to pay, I suppose.