Malaysia Airlines has said its loss widened in the last quarter, and was forced to apologise for a promotional tweet criticised as insensitive after two deadly passenger jet disasters this year.

Malaysia Airlines will cut 6,000 workers as part of a $1.9bn (€1.4bn) overhaul announced to revive its damaged brand after being hit by double passenger jet disasters.

Malaysia’s government will carry out a complete overhaul of its troubled national airline in an attempt to revive the loss-making firm after it was hit by two devastating jetliner disasters this year.

Malaysia’s state investment company plans to make Malaysia Airlines fully government owned, removing it from the country’s stock exchange before carrying out a far-reaching overhaul of the carrier that is reeling from double disasters.