Families of the missing passengers of Flight MH370 were encouraged to go home and wait for real-time updates from there, according to a statement released by Malaysia Airlines on Thursday.

The families of the missing aircraft have been staying in local hotels to attend daily briefings on the search campaign, which has now run for over 50 days. With still no solid leads, Malaysia Airlines said its support center at Beijing's Lido Hotel will be closed starting May 7.

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The airline also said that it will continue to communicate with the passengers' families via phone calls, messages, the Web, and actual meetings.

Malaysia Airline Flight MH370 disappeared while on its way to Beijing on March 8, along with its 239 passengers. During the past few weeks, search teams have been going over an area in the southern part of the Indian Ocean. This location is found 1,100 miles away from Perth, Australia. Officials have determined that the aircraft turned around to head west before it vanished.

As of now, there is still no sign of the missing Boeing 777. Australia, China, Malaysia, the US, as well as other countries have already put in their fair share in expensive search efforts.

In the Thursday statement, Malaysia Airlines said this is probably the biggest search operation in human history. The firm also said that they have to accept the "hard reality" that no sign of the plane has turned up yet and that the whereabouts of the passengers and crew are still a mystery.

Kins of the missing passengers, however, are still hoping that their loved ones are still alive. Relatives of the more than 100 Chinese passengers on the plane have alleged that the Malaysian government is hiding information from them. They have also staged public rallies and called out Malaysian authorities in group statements.

Last week, relatives of Chinese passengers have struggled with police in their desire to enter the Malaysian Embassy. This was the peak of the building tension between the Malaysian government and the MH370 passengers' relatives.

Earlier this month, Malaysia's Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Hamzah Zainuddin had met with family members to talk about financial assistance. Zainuddin asked the families to submit a proposal and said the airline or the Malaysian government could set up a fund for these families.