Ride quality of Boeing 737 vs airbus a320

Ryanair are instructed and taught to land the aircraft 'the Boeing way'. A close relative of mine is a Ryanair LTC/IRE/TRE and he says that cadets are taught to 'look down towards the end of the runway, not just over the nose' as they come over the threshold. This eliminates their tendency to want to 'round out' and flare the aircraft. I was sitting beside him when were were landing recently on an Aer Lingus flight. I thought nothing of the landing and he turned to me and said "we'd fail him on his line training if he landed like that". I asked him to explain, and again he pointed out the 'rounding out' and flaring just before touchdown. Some airlines do it, maybe most, but not Ryanair. And they didn't just decide to adopt this SOP 'willy nilly'. It comes directly from Boeing.

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That's a bit like saying the rules of the road say an emergency stop in a car is the quickest (safest) way to stop then get all Dublin buses to stop like that.

Flew on a 3 year old MAX into Cork late last week, flight was smooth and noise levels low but the interior was shaky and rattled a fair amount as I mentioned before. It was also incredibly worn, air nozzle was broken, cabin hot and stuffy, vents black with dirt and carpets worn away. The seat belts were frayed and actually difficult to adjust as they kept getting caught.

Smooth touch down at Cork, not quite Aer Lingus butter but noticeably softer than the NG.

A320 is no spring chicken but it was a clean sheet mid 1980's design

The 737 is really a 707 with 2 engines so its late 1950's piece of engineering, robust but not as refined as the A320 with its fly by wire magic which does deliver a smoother ride.

I've flown on weeks old 737 MAX and was horrified by the noise levels (737 still doesn't have landing gear doors), the interior rattled. In comparison flying for the first time on 4 year old EI A321LR was amazed at how quiet it was

The "bring back the 757" debate is a favourite topic on at least one major online aviation forum, but no one has ever tabled a convincing argument that it should be brought back in a revamped form. It's a great aircraft to watch and has very good field performance, but there are very few 757 missions that can't be performed much more efficiently by other, more modern, types these days.

I would suppose that if you're not flaring then there would be more wear and tear on the landing gear? - resulting in higher maintenance cost for Ryanair?