Originally Posted by
global_happy_traveller
HKG staff told me before eupgrades that upgrades are done by the status of the passenger........ based on that, others experience and AY's response if your E spouse sponsored you as SE, you'd be entitled to upgrade at SE times 7 days in advance and at SE waitlist levels at the airport...... vice versa, if you are an SE sponsoring your E wife, then your wife will only be able to request upgrade 4 days in advance and at E waitlist levels at the airport... if the sponsored pax have no status, I guess you'd be looking at the very last minute on call.
That's not what I read in Andrew's message.
Two different pecking orders.
Of course, Souvlaki raises yet another question: what if the companion of the SE/E has status on his own? Is he/she dealt with as companion (with lower priority) or based upon his/her own status?