We’re seeing bad operator ICAO codes coming through for flight numbers in AirlineFlightSchedules. Specifically this is for United Airlines (UAL) flights where the schedules are coming from Air New Zealand (ANZ)
For example: Flight ANZ6532 serviced by UA23597 from KIAH to KIND departing March 24th 2016, 10:10:00.000 should have been UAL3597 (see screen shots). We’ve found about 1600+ instances of this going back to March 17th. When attempting to look up either flight on FlightAware website for either flight number, we get no results. However if we look up the corrected flight number (UAL3597) we get the correct results.
You can use the following API call to see these results:
The problem is that many schedules for NZ that we are getting from the airlines have operating carrier as “UA2”. We are investigating why this is the case and will let you know once we have more information. If possible, I would suggest substituting that UA2 with UAL for all schedules ANZ for now.
Unfortunately, this is currently a limitation in the data we’re receiving from our provider. As stated above, a simple workaround is to parse the results and change any occurrences of “UA2” to “UAL” for now.
