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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/snow-travel-misery-finally-eases.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Passengers queue outside Heathrow Airport's Terminal 3 as disruption due to bad weather finally eased" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-snow-travel-misery-finally-eases.jpg" alt="Passengers queue outside Heathrow Airport's Terminal 3 as disruption due to bad weather finally eased"/></a></p>
<p>Christmas travel misery is beginning to ease &#8211; a day late for Heathrow Airport&#8217;s boss who decided to sacrifice his 2010 bonus.</p>
<p>As thousands of exhausted passengers finally began to move at the airport, under-fire Colin Matthews announced he would forgo his annual bonus.</p>
<p>Last year he took home £944,000 in salary and bonuses.</p>
<p>Mr Matthews, BAA&#8217;s chief executive, said: &#8220;I have decided to give up my bonus for the current year. My focus is on keeping people moving and rebuilding confidence in Heathrow.&#8221;</p>
<p>BAA would not reveal how much his bonus was.</p>
<p>Heathrow, the world&#8217;s largest international airport, has made headlines for days as massive amounts of flights were cancelled because of the snow and ice and passengers were left stranded.</p>
<p>Critics slammed Heathrow as a third-world airport and blasted the management&#8217;s inability to cope with the big freeze.</p>
<p>Earlier, Mick Rix, the GMB union&#8217;s national officer for the aviation industry, said paying him &#8220;a huge bonus&#8221; would be &#8220;an absolute slap in the face to the thousands of people who have been stranded at Heathrow for the past three days&#8221;.</p>
<p>Mayor of London Boris Johnson said BAA had &#8220;very serious lessons&#8221; to learn from the chaos.</p>
<p>And BMI chief executive Wolfgang Prock-Schauer claimed the airport &#8220;did not have enough de-icing fluid&#8221; &#8211; something a Heathrow Airport spokesman strenuously denied.</p>
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