Cannot say anything about crew, but IMHO A320 and 737 were indistinguishable for the passengers. All I cared about was lack of legroom. When AIrbus introduced the thin seats, I was okay with it, but my wife really hated them.

You think pax are smart enough to notice a difference in the ride?

With competent and well-trained pilots, I prefer the 737.

As for wide body, it's hardly appropriate to compare an A350 Airbus' latest widebody) to a 767 (near end of career after early 80s EIS).

Now, the 787 is the most comfortable ride in the air now, and the A350 is *almost* comparable.

A320 - Down in the weather

B737 - On top of the weather

Big 737NG orders came from:
1. Dispatch reliability, 99% nothing less. AB less.
2. Easy ground loading of bags, huge customer satisfaction item for late bags. Big deal for airlines.
3. Incredible wing performance. Nothing can beat that wing for what it hauls.

4. Bonus. Santos airport near Rio can carry 190 passengers in/out of a 4100' runway with the SFP - Short Field Performance kit along with RNP-AR procedures. AB can only fly with 319 series with 40 fewer seats.

In short you can make money w a Boeing, stay in business, keep pilot jobs. Pretty simple really.

Best and quietest ride is the A380 up front. There is no comparison. You’ll miss the takeoff unless you’re looking outside.

The comparison stems from my original quoted post between an A320 (newer) and a B737 (older), specifically newer Airbus vs older Boeing was the topic. Following onto that. I doubt there's much difference in the ride between an A350 and a B787 for all the (newer) reasons.

Having said that. Boeing would have been better off in the early nineties with a clean-sheet new narrowbody to replace the 737. I have plenty of time in them. Great in the 60's,70's, 80's, but dated today.

Airbus have the same reliable dispatch rate as the B737 without the downsides of a near 60-year old airframe. Namely..

very firm ride

very narrow uncomfortable seat width in the back

and for you pilots out there, a notoriously uncomfortable and NOISY cockpit, little better than squeezing into the Gemini space capsule. (It's the same nosecone on the 757 which largely makes it so noisy vice the 767.)

and never mind the iron-maiden-like disc-slipping jumpseat.

I have more than once switched a deadhead flight home over riding in the back of a B737 vice an A321neo. I guess I upset the 737 loyalists, but facts are facts. There is no comparison between riding on an A321 and any B737.

Boeing designed a new supercritical wing for the 737 NG. It's not the "dumb wing" from the 737 classic. They had to design the new wing to be able to hold more fuel, support more weight and increase efficiency. It's 10 years newer than the A320.

The Max is using the same basic wing with improvements like the new winglets.

I am interested in knowing what you mean by "smarter wing"? I know that Airbus is working on new composite wing for the A320 series that may use folding wings like the Boeing 777x. This is so they can continue to meet airport category C wingspan limits.