Flown both B737's and A320/319's at the same kind of operations and the Airbuses outperform the boeings by far.T.O. and landing performance on the airbuses are much better.Comparisons have bee made,on simulators and ,in the cfit recovery,windshear recovery the hard protected flight controls sys on the Airbus proved to safer and easier than the soft protected sys on the B-777,although the pilots,all of them americans of course "decided" that they rather have the capabiliyt to "override the protections of the Airbus in case of a situation like those arises.As for watching Discovery channel,give me a break!!!Pure and simple payd for by Boeing!!!In the program about the accident with the airbus in the airshow back in the late 80's they stated,and I quote:"the flight controls sys,locked up !!!"And we know that ain't true,don't we???