Originally Posted by
msbbarratt
The wise old crows over at Leeham News have suggested that Bombardier's FBW system is very good, benefiting from being decades newer than Airbus's. It would be a pity if "commonality" meant tossing that in the bin...
They could achieve commonality the opposite direction, by adopting the BBD FBW system on (future) Airbus models. How does the two cockpits stack up against each other, does the 20-year difference in age also yield a better result in that area? Visually the CS, nee A220, looks rather much like an A350 put in a photocopier and set to 40%. Maybe it'll also work at 60%, creating an A320/A321 replacement with BBD innards up front.
Perhaps too far of a stretch.