Travel agencies in many countries have already reported customers canceling reservations on Malaysian Airlines flights since one of the carrier's planes was shot down over Ukraine. In view of the seco

No disrespect to the victims of either tragedy, but the odds are good now.

Investors are so spooked after the after two disaster and the government could not rule out bankruptcy for the airline. Even before this disaster in Ukranine, the airline's market value has plunged about 50 percent so far this year. If they intend to survive and attact new investors, they need complete restructuring from top to bottom, including the airline name change.

No, I wouldn't. They had the option of taking a 5 minute detour away from danger, but chose not to take it. And the M370 increasingly appears to be the work of the pilot.

Also, I'm leery flying on any airline from a Muslim-majority country.

It's hardly the airline's fault that some mad Ukrainian rebel missile battery locked on and shot it down. Other airliners were using the same route the same day.

Malaysian Air has a record of taking risks to save money. I think it was around 2000 or 2001 that they were going to be banned from using Heathrow because they were arriving with just 30 minutes of flying time fuel left in the tank. A cost saving measure that could have become a tragedy.

I would never fly Malaysian Airlines for political and personal reasons. Their pro Islamic government is not simply against Israel but also tinged with anti Semitism. That in itself poses a potential problem for me. After these two disasters I would not fly this airline even it I were given a first class ticket for a lifetime.

Enough has been said about the first disaster. In this case it is crazy that this company was sending planes over a war zone. As various sides fight over who is to blame for this horror and Obama is ghoulishly using the dead as an excuse to hurt Russia the absolute fact is that this airliner should not have been flying over East Ukraine in the first place. The company did this to save on fuel. The most stupid parsimony imaginable.

As a frequent flyer to Europe, this horror is of considerable importance to me. I checked the routing of my usual airline and they had rerouted a long time ago.

They had the option of taking a 5 minute detour away from danger, but chose not to take it.

They were following a normal flight plan, and under the direction of ground controllers. No detour was recommended, so none was taken. There were 5 or 6 other flights on the same path that morning from other carriers, weren't there? So the Malaysian flight wasn't the only one who didn't take a detour. As it was, there were flying north of their usual flight path to avoid flying over the Crimea.

The idiots who fired the missile were trigger happy, the missile radar would have told them that the transponder of the airplane was transmitting a civilian airline signal. The pilots and the airline did not do one single thing wrong.

It's not the specific airline I would avoid, but whether or not I would be flying through any area with missiles being lobbed randomly back and forth.

Then I wouldn't take ANY airline.

"It's hardly the airline's fault that some mad Ukrainian rebel missile battery locked on and shot it down. Other airliners were using the same route the same day."

The other airliners got lucky.

@Cracaphat: While you are certainly right about death being uncontrollable, I do believe people have a significant amount of power over how and when they'll go.

That is to say, I would not take this or any airline going over a warzone in the same way I would not bungee jump over crocodiles or take a walk alone in the African Savanna.

"They were following a normal flight plan...."

"Normal"?!? That's a howler. Today how many airliners are following that same "normal flight plan"? Answer: zero. Reason: because it's too dangerous.

Flying over a war zone with rebels equipped with surface to air missiles is anything but "normal." An Su-25 fighter was shot down in the same area the day before, for crying out loud! If they can shoot down fighters, they can shoot down thin-skinned lumbering airliners.

Everyone knows that, except the bone-headed aviation controllers and regulators, it seems.