beijing chinas online ticketing sites have stopped booking on flights going to malaysia this is the first major commercial backlash against malaysia after kuala lumpur announced that there was no hope for passengers of the missing mh370 flight on march 24 online travel agencies elong lycom qunar and mango are among those who have imposed the ban the move will mean cancellation of a large number of flights of chinese and foreign airline companies because a major part of airline ticketing is done by online sites in the country with even agents using the service we will continue the ban indefinitely until the malaysian government and malaysia airlines release every piece of information they have in order to find out the truth about the missing flight as soon as possible elong a popular booking site announced reflecting the general mood of anger in the chinese internet the portal said that it would pay the families of two missing passengers who had booked tickets in mh370 through it 100000 yuan each as a consolation lycom voiced similar sentiment saying its ban will go on until malaysian airlines sorts out the truth and offers a satisfactory explanation to all the victims and the chinese people it offered to compensate passengers who have booked trips to malaysia earlier the move will severely hit chinamalaysia business relations in 2014 which is being celebrated as the year of friendship by the two countries chinese reactions which included a protest march to the malaysian embassy in beijing are reminiscent to the outrage shown last year against the japanese following the diaoyu islands confrontation in the malaysian case the first reaction came from thousands of chinese tourists canceling their travel plans for malaysia following by ticketing companies taking off malaysian airlines as an option on offer