I fly the NG and I think it is a great airplane. I can't really comment on the bus at all having never flown it. I will concede some things are probably a little better on the bus. Most notably is the NG is still, to an extent, an older Boeing at heart. No EICAS and the overhead panel isn't as "elegant" as you will find on a 757/767/777. With that said though, it is a great jet to fly with plenty of power. The HUD is a fantastic feature and after getting used to it I really enjoy flying it. It is a great feature when shooting that ILS to mins. The HUD also gives us the option of hand flying a CAT III ILS. So, to sum up I think the NG is a great jet. The few things I'd have changed on it would have been to completely update the crew alerting system and panels to take full advantage of the modern displays but, due to Type Certification requirements to keep all 737 guys legal on all models they could only update so much.