I think you hit on the crux of the opinion. The ones that didn't like the airplane, didn't like it from a pilots' perspective. One said "I'll tell you everything I like about the Airbus... It's a comfortable cockpit"..... that was it. That was all he liked about it. The other one didn't say, other than to say it was a mistake and he would bid off as soon as he could.

And re-reading my post, I probably said something I should not have said, but I want to explain that comment. I said it was an unsafe design, and that was bad verbiage. To me, it seems to be a great design for a single pilot operation. For the last almost 30 years of my flying career, I have had secondary inputs from the airplane which IMHO are very important when you have another idiot sitting next to you that can change things without your knowledge. Frozen throttles, joysticks that are not interconnected AND out of easy view of the other pilot are a couple of things that (IMO) remove that safeguard.

The other points you raised are the very same issues with, and why I am not interested in flying either the 777 or 747. I still love flying the airplane, and I still love going places. Neither of those missions interest me, and you never get to fly. While the 330 is not in THAT category, for me it comes down to the airplane. It's just not for me. So for all you guys junior to me, you moved up a number as far as holding captain on it, so you should be encouraging more old farts like me to stay off of it.... Unless the rope burns me off thru retirements of 757s, it will be a cold day in Alabama before I learn to speak french.