If a Rampie with twenty years service is in competition with a captain with fifteen years service for the one remaining seat in EY then, in most airlines, Date of Joining and not status is the deciding factor of the
uplift priority, so the Rampie gets the seat. If the captain holds an upgradable ticket then, subject to availability, he will get an upgrade. If, using the same two individuals, the Rampie also has an upgradable ticket and there is no seat in EY and only one in Business then complications can arise as the captain may well have a higher
upgrade priority than the Rampie, it really all depends on the company's staff travel policy.
Staff travel can be a bit like wading in glue, in the ideal world the airline has a strict policy on uplifting and upgrading priorities and the staff understand the policy!
