BAA says December's cold weather cost it £24m

About 7.2 million people were stick at the six airports of UK because of the sever weather and the temporarily close of the airports.

The cancellation of most of the flights cost the airlines a lot of money.

For example,the cancellation of two-thousand flights of the airline Flybe cost them about 6 million.

The Virgin Atlantic stops paying its fees because of the slow reaction of the heavy snow.

And the BAA aid that there was a drop in the traffic of the passengers due to the severe weather.

Heathrow, BAA largest airport, lost many of its passengers and had to pay 19 million of the 24 million hit of the UK.

The BAA apologized for the passengers but they had to cancel the flights because of the severe weather in the UK.

The BAA is establishing an inquiry to learn how to react to this severe weather in the future.

For the year as a whole, BAA said it had handled 103.9 million passengers, down 2.8% from 2009.

But now 0.6% of the passengers arose and are back to have their flights safely.

And the BAA said that Heathrow will recover quickly from July to november.

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