Malaysia Airlines, whose plane has been looking for a plane for two months in the Indian Ocean, reported on record losses

Malaysia Airlines reported a record quarterly losses over the past two months after the MH370 flight disappeared during the flight over the Atlantic, Reuters reports. The disaster caused a sharp reduction in passenger flow.

The statement widespread by the company said that its losses for the first quarter of the year amounted to 138 million dollars. This is the biggest loss of the company since 2011.

The company says that after the incident with the MH370 flight, missing on March 8, a large number of cancellation of tickets for long -range flights followed. Ticket sales in China, whose inhabitants are the main consumers of the company's services, were reduced by 60%.

Earlier, Malaysia Airlines announced that it is carrying out economic recovery measures, which will include the sale of an engineering unit and updating an aging aircraft park.

The Boeing 777 aircraft, which made the MH370 flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, disappeared from the radar screens on March 8. 239 people were on board. Why the liner ended his journey in the Indian Ocean is unknown. The clarification of the circumstances of the crash is still ongoing, and passengers and crew members are considered missing.

In mid -April, rescuers announced that they were no longer expected to detect new black box signals: by this time, the batteries of the transponders installed on them probably had fully exhausted their resource, which is an average of 30 days. The search team is preparing to launch an unmanned autonomous submarine into the Indian Ocean.