I think you could construct a scenario where one would be better than the other in those specific situations...
for most folks, however, they really mean three things when they are talking about FDing: solo, grp and raid.
solo:
monks can FD travel through zones using sneak with relative safety if they have the skill to do it (i forget the link but someone recently posted a video on youtube of a monk flopping and sneaking his way through much of NToV to get into the pom---I don't think an SK could have done it nearly as easily). solo fighting sometimes you have to hit FD if you are going to lose or get aggro from someone's train, for this SK and monk are prob equal.
Group:
As puller for a group monk and SK can both get the job done about the same, depending on the specific situation there might be one place that one is better than the other. Generally speaking, between monk fd/sneak and SK fd/CoS they can split most exp camps if they know what they are doing. Once split, its really more about the attentiveness of the puller than their FD skills.
The thing isn't so much about who will be the puller, but who will be the tank. In most grps with an SK and a monk, it is going to make better sense for the monk to go out and pull and the SK to stay in (and med) and tank. Monk can DPS between pulls. Its a solid setup. It would be a lot of work for the SK to tank and pull in an exp grp and he would eventually go OOM if he couldn't med between kills.
As DPS manager tool monk can FD and pop back up without missing a single round, if needed. SK really can't do this nearly as smoothly, but why would they need to in most situations when they are the tank?
Raids:
Depending on the particular raid zone and mobs being split either could get the job done. On big pulling raids there is usually a team of pullers working together, not a single splitter. I usually send monks to the front and let the SKs do the last leg of the pull.
But, it really depends on player skill. Pulling in EQ with FD can be very quarky and the best folks aren't the best because they are monk or SK...they tend to know the tricks of the zone and pathing very well.
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