Originally Posted by
DarkSideMoon
That’s exactly how they pushed. They’d rather retrofit the rest of the airplane to accommodate the 1950’s flight deck than have airlines possibly have to pay for differences training.
My read is that they got caught with their pants down by the NEO and needed to quickly put lipstick on a 53 year old pig. They needed a clean sheet design, or better yet, the start of a type-family which Boeing sort of pioneered with the
757/767 42 years ago then dropped with follow on aircraft.