Thai or Malaysian?

Skytrax has reviews of all airlines & airports in the world. As you can see they rate Malaysian as ** and Thai as *, although maybe to consider is that Malaysian is probably going to be Islamic (and thus maybe alcohol free) where as Thailand is DISTINCTLY un-alcohol free!

I think that their were warnings given to Malayasian a few years back about planes arriving at Heathrow with the engines running on the fumes in the empty fuel tanks.

Malaysian serve alcohol, no probs!

Thai are getting bad reviews on the london flights

I didn't see a whole lot of difference between the two and they both offered pretty great service as far as I was concerned. The decision will probably come down to two things - price, since you may as well save a few bucks and just go with the cheapest; and stopovers - both airlines will probably offer you a free stop over in their city if you have time to take it. Do you prefer to spent a few days (or even a few months) in Bangkok or KL?

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<hr>I think that their were warnings given to Malayasian a few years back about planes arriving at Heathrow with the engines running on the fumes in the empty fuel tanks. <hr></blockquote>hard to believe. The PIC (Pilot in command) is responsible for the safety of the flight at all times, rather than the company that owns the plane. It is down to the PIC to calculate fuel requirements and fuel accordingly, it's the PIC that is prosecuted if it goes wrong. The chances of having an entire corporation of JAR-ATPL licensed FC who can't calculate fuel requirements is near zero. Plus the risk (in terms of both safety & finance) you take from being unable to divert in case of an emergency, and likely loosing the entire craft, is far far far outstripped by the cost of carrying a few extra gallons of fuel.

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<hr>I think that their were warnings given to Malayasian a few years back about planes arriving at Heathrow with the engines running on the fumes in the empty fuel tanks.<hr></blockquote>

That was back in 1999. The airline got into trouble for carrying less 'emergency' fuel than they were supposed to, meaning that had there been an emergency and a need to divert, their choice of alternative airports would have been limited by the amount of fuel remaining in their tank.

I have flown with both. I flew with Thai when I returned from Aus a few years ago, with a 3 week stop over in Thailand. I flew with Malaysian when I took a trip to HK from Sydney, so flew Syd-KL-HK and back.

I would choose Malaysian. Both had good service and food as I remember, but Thai did not have individual seat back TVs which on a long flight is a drag. Maybe they've updated their planes since then. Air Malaysia had a good in flight entertainment system if I remember correctly.

Also I'd say KL is a better airport for a stop over than BKK, if it's hours rather than days.