diff --git a/flink/v1.19/flink/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/flink/source/IcebergSource.java b/flink/v1.19/flink/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/flink/source/IcebergSource.java
index f36f405f344e..90e26a86d005 100644
--- a/flink/v1.19/flink/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/flink/source/IcebergSource.java
+++ b/flink/v1.19/flink/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/flink/source/IcebergSource.java
@@ -103,6 +103,8 @@ public class IcebergSource<T> implements Source<T, IcebergSourceSplit, IcebergEn
   private final SerializableRecordEmitter<T> emitter;
   private final String tableName;
 
+  private volatile List<IcebergSourceSplit> batchSplits;
+
   IcebergSource(
       TableLoader tableLoader,
       ScanContext scanContext,
@@ -138,16 +140,26 @@ private String planningThreadName() {
     return tableName + "-" + UUID.randomUUID();
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Cache the enumerated splits for batch execution to avoid double planning as there are two code
+   * paths obtaining splits: (1) infer parallelism (2) enumerator creation.
+   */
   private List<IcebergSourceSplit> planSplitsForBatch(String threadName) {
+    if (batchSplits != null) {
+      return batchSplits;
+    }
+
     ExecutorService workerPool =
         ThreadPools.newWorkerPool(threadName, scanContext.planParallelism());
     try (TableLoader loader = tableLoader.clone()) {
       loader.open();
-      List<IcebergSourceSplit> splits =
+      this.batchSplits =
           FlinkSplitPlanner.planIcebergSourceSplits(loader.loadTable(), scanContext, workerPool);
       LOG.info(
-          "Discovered {} splits from table {} during job initialization", splits.size(), tableName);
-      return splits;
+          "Discovered {} splits from table {} during job initialization",
+          batchSplits.size(),
+          tableName);
+      return batchSplits;
     } catch (IOException e) {
       throw new UncheckedIOException("Failed to close table loader", e);
     } finally {
@@ -213,6 +225,8 @@ private SplitEnumerator<IcebergSourceSplit, IcebergEnumeratorState> createEnumer
         // Only do scan planning if nothing is restored from checkpoint state
         List<IcebergSourceSplit> splits = planSplitsForBatch(planningThreadName());
         assigner.onDiscoveredSplits(splits);
+        // clear the cached splits after enumerator creation as they won't be needed anymore
+        this.batchSplits = null;
       }
 
       return new StaticIcebergEnumerator(enumContext, assigner);
diff --git a/flink/v1.19/flink/src/test/java/org/apache/iceberg/flink/source/TestIcebergSourceSql.java b/flink/v1.19/flink/src/test/java/org/apache/iceberg/flink/source/TestIcebergSourceSql.java
index acd5d1e957e4..548940a842ce 100644
--- a/flink/v1.19/flink/src/test/java/org/apache/iceberg/flink/source/TestIcebergSourceSql.java
+++ b/flink/v1.19/flink/src/test/java/org/apache/iceberg/flink/source/TestIcebergSourceSql.java
@@ -54,7 +54,10 @@ public void before() throws IOException {
     TableEnvironment tableEnvironment = getTableEnv();
     Configuration tableConf = tableEnvironment.getConfig().getConfiguration();
     tableConf.set(FlinkConfigOptions.TABLE_EXEC_ICEBERG_USE_FLIP27_SOURCE, true);
-    // disable inferring parallelism to avoid interfering watermark tests
+    // Disable inferring parallelism to avoid interfering watermark tests
+    // that check split assignment is ordered by the watermark column.
+    // The tests assumes default parallelism of 1 with single reader task
+    // in order to check the order of read records.
     tableConf.set(FlinkConfigOptions.TABLE_EXEC_ICEBERG_INFER_SOURCE_PARALLELISM, false);
 
     tableEnvironment.getConfig().set("table.exec.resource.default-parallelism", "1");