Missing MH370: We are ready to fly next of kin to Australia, says MAS

Chinese relatives of passengers from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 leave a meeting with airline officials at the Metro Park Lido Hotel in Beijing on March 20, 2014.

SEPANG: Malaysia Airlines is ready to fly the families of MH370 passengers and crew to Australia if the missing aircraft is found in the southern Indian Ocean, said its chief executive officer Ahmad Jauhari Yahya.

The families of the 239 passengers and crew, he said, had always been the airline’s top priority and flying them to Australia was not an issue.