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?
As
lhrcsd said, this must be the codeshare number for it - not the actual operator of the flight. Both ba.com and flightaware.com still indicate this flight is operated with a BA 747.