Originally Posted by
work2fly
I've been told the same thing: Sponsor status does not carry over to sponsoree and the waitlists are now being cleared by status, not FIFO.
My recent experience supports this but I don't want to draw any conclusions from just a few data points.
Another data point here that I would think is the opposite... I have a 2P friend cleared a SFO - NRT flight to NC. He had waitlisted for quite sometime, so if the FIFO system is in place, then it seems he cleared with just waiting. I'm not sure how SFO - NRT compares to the SFO - HKG (which is notoriously hard to clear), I'm just assuming the common knowledge that SFO is very elite heavy and I'd think it is safe to assume that there is always someone with a higher status (1P, 1K, GS) than him in the waitlist (if IM releases NC seats very slowly).
Plenty of assumptions here...