Originally Posted by
Chokkoubin
Out of interest, a friend is on BA173 this morning to JFK (a 744 flight), and is telling me that it's now stated as being operated by IB - is that a usual occurrence, or are there really that few spare aircraft?
I think your friend might have got confused by noticing an IB flight number for the BA operating carrier, perfectly normal occurrence when flights are Code Shared with partner airlines.
The flight number might be IB???? but the carrier is British Airways.