Southend Airport is continuing to take flights from other airports to help ease pressure on the other major airports and the industry.

In the latest move Southend welcomed a flight Lasi in Romania to help support Heathrow Airport.

It comes after it was announced two of the country’s largest airports, Heathrow and Gatwick, had to cancel hundreds of flights in and Southend Airport has been taking up some of the flights which Gatwick and Heathrow have been unable to run.

Posting on Twitter a spokesman for Southend Airport Air Traffic Control said: "Our ‘help out’ flights continue this evening with a Blue Air flight from Lasi. This flight would routinely be destined for Heathrow Airport. "Welcome to Southend Airport Blue Air, we hope we can host you again in the future."

It also comes after the airport has already been accepting flights from other locations, including a flight from Athens which was allowed to land at the last minute when Heathrow Airport had to issue a late flight cancellation.