Airline launches Stansted route

The airline will operate flights three times a week

A new air service between Essex and Romania has been launched.

Romanian low-cost airline Blue Air has started its new direct service between Stansted Airport and Bucharest.

Blue Air said return flights will start from £1.50 excluding tax, and will operate twice daily on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

"This is a new direct link and is the first of a number of new route launches set to start from here this month," Nick Barton, from Stansted, said.

American Airlines is also to begin new daily flights to New York's JFK on 29 October offering 220 seats.