Not sure if cables and jackscrews, rigs and jigs are the same or not, but the user interface we get jiggy with looks too different IMHO to make it a common type, even with the 88 glass mock ups as rumored. Short course maybe, but walking off one and flying the other during an ATL 5 concourse 40 minute scheduled plane change (on a Sunday with Chick-fil-A closed...DANG IT!!!) is a bit of a stretch IMO.

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Trans...231/0182820/L/

Unless we dumb it way down like SWA did for their old 737's.

I'm sure there's some degree of similarity with the nuts and bolts of it but most of that will be stuff that hardly ever breaks anyway. Different engines and I would assume different brakes than the 88/90 cause the 95 don't chatter yet I can't see them giving the same stopping power to the 90 and 95 given their difference in weight.

But in any case, if we glass up the 88's I could see a bi-directional short course that could move guys between fleets pretty quickly but I can't immagine the feds signing off on "common fleet" but you never know. Heck maybe they will bring "dual qual" back. Why not, right, since we already train for the next aircraft while still flying the last aircraft anyway. Pffffft.