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United is openly fishing for a discount from Airbus by saying they will switch if they receive an offer where the economics work. But for Airbus there isn't really an incentive to hurt Boeing by offering a large discount. They are better off maximising their own revenue and letting Boeing be Boeing.

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Allegedly (from just random messages across different message boards) Airbus is likely nearing their backlogs to a point in time when they plan an A320 successor. Of course, they can still build the current A320 family but their production capacity for it will be decreasing steadily in the future. So they might not need a hell of a lot more orders.

But they do want more companies in their team when the successor comes.

I for one would question if a company will stop making a incredibly successful product. Their dreams of a A320/A321 successor will likely not be ready as soon as they think. They are increasing production and will continue to try.

At the same time they will stretch A220, then they can hopefully move production from A320 to A321.

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