After the MH370 disaster, malaysian airlines lowered their fares to attract more punters, which seemed to work as I know people including myself who took advantage of them, my flight being SYD-BKK via KL with a 1hr stop was reasonable @$820 aus, booked for later this year. However with this 2nd tragedy MH17, and after reading a post in thai visa about the financial situation of Malaysian Airlines, & wondering about that supersticious 3rd accident, I enquired about a possible refund with my local flight centre travel agent, and to my surprise right now they are offering full refunds, so I enquired as to flight deals around that time & got a direct flight with qantas for $70 cheaper & threw in an extra day.

just to let people know if they have flights with MA, they can possibly do same as I did if they wanted, and my condolences & sympathy to all families of lost passengers.

regards songhklasid.

I had a look on their website today, funnily enough. £700+ return to Bangkok from London. No thanks, not at that price.

Nothing wrong with Malaysian Airlines and probably safer than ever. Backed by the Malaysian government they are never going to run out of cash. The chances of a third incident are very very low almost impossible odds. I would fly on their A380 to London tomorrow.

Songhklasid has demonstrated their service quality with his information that they will offer refunds for passengers too scared to fly. How many airlines would do that?

Refunds were indeed given, but an item on the BBC said this offer only applies for a week after the MH17 crash and expires today.

Would not travel on this airline for free, jinxed.

I like to use them, nice service and good flight times. Their prices are in general reasonable, but as always flight prices tend to vary a lot depending on many factors.

I checked their website a couple days ago to see if they were offering any promotional fares BKK-KUL-LAX return and for everyday I selected I got back that there were no flights available. This seems strange. Maybe they're shutting down their international routes.

Think they need to rebrand under a slightly different name and definitely a new two letter code. MH is sadly now synonymous with tragedy.

Would not travel on this airline for free, jinxed.

Rubbish..........I'd fly them tomorrow

I would fly them tomorrow but would not book a ticket to far ahead because they probably will get bust over the next months (at least that seems to be the general consensus here in Malaysia).

It probably will be a controlled bankrupt and a same day restart but no guaranties.

It's the national airline of Malaysia bankrolled by the Malaysian government. The worst that can happen is that drop the route you booked on eg KL to Auckland. They will then put you on another airline Singapore Airlines, Cathey Pacific whatever. If your not happy with that the other option is a full refund.