Originally Posted by
ExplorerWannabe
Notice the FSN via Cablepick shows UA 182 as a 737-800 while United Itinerary Management shows me the correct (I hope) aircraft of a 787-8. Since Cablepick's information comes directly from United, it is apparently going into a different database than itinerary management. Any ideas on what the different sources are and why they'd have this inconsistency?
It's not so much that "Cablepick's information comes directly from United" as it is that Cablepick is just a tool that generates custom URLs for the United.com flight status page.
What you're seeing here is that the schedule is correct but the flight detail database is incorrect. The latter will correct itself once someone notices or as the flight date approaches. Since there is limited public access to the flight details three months ahead of time, they're not a top priority; 99.99% of all users need the schedule to be correct (which it is).