Originally Posted by
nivsy
As others have mentioned yet I see no real answer if it was speculation then why did BA clearly show the flights as a 747 during the booking process.
There's a difference between publishing a 747 in the schedule, and publishing an invitation to a birthday celebration. BA did the former, BA did not do the latter. Some people thought that they'd stolen a march on getting a place for the latter by relying on the former as an indicator. But whether or not the latter was going to happen was, for outsiders, only ever a matter of speculation.