Malaysian Airlines' Commercial Director Hugh Dunleavy meets with the relatives of the plane passengers in Beijing, on March 9, 2014. Malaysian Airlines asks the relatives of the plane passengers to prepare their passport and identity card. [Photo/Xinhua]

Additionally, the airline offered to facilitate the visits of close relatives of the passengers to Malaysia for further discussions. The first flight for Chinese relatives to Malaysia will depart on Tuesday, according to Hugh Dunleavy, director of Commercial with the airlines.

"We will try to speed up the visa process and make sure the closest family members will board the first flight," Dunleavy said.

He added that the airlines will arrange subsequent flights to Malaysia for other friends and relatives.

For some of the loved ones, however, the offer was not good enough. Many decided to refuse the offer and stay in China.

"The only thing I want is to know where they are. How can I know that if I go to Malaysia?" said a Beijing resident who refused to disclose her name.

Xu Suhang, a resident of Jiangsu province who said she had several friends and relatives on the flight, presented a self-drawn map to Dunleavy and said there is a possibility that the flight had been lost near Cambodia.

"If they could just enlarge the search area by another longitude, there is a chance that the flight is there," she said.

The response she received, in her words, was that Malaysia Airlines is not in charge of the search and rescue operations.

Dunleavy refused to confirm reports that five passengers on missing flight MH370 had boarded with fake passports.

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