Originally Posted by
Zorak
I'd feel uneasy about it, but I have also cleared off the waitlist automatically even on a flight where I did not have the ghost map. So it's hard to say for certain.
Random tangent: normally when I see the ghost map it appears after my assigned Y/Y+ seat map. I have an upcoming flight waitlisted where the ghost map appears first. Hadn't seen that before.
It depends on if and where the place the waitlisted segment in the reservation. If they place it before, then it appears before, after, than after.
Also if they don't list it in the reservation at all then it doesn't appear. From booking upgrades over multiple years I've been told it doesn't matter if it's placed in there or not. However most agents place it as a marker meaning one less step once/if you clear.