With the new PhD guy from Delta in charge of hiring, the sponsor thing is not really important anymore. The Company has further restricted it to the following: You can only sponsor one person at a time, you must have flown with the person at a previous job etc. I don't think anyone really knows the key to hiring at Fedex even the guys like myself who currently work there. All I can say is this PhD type is going to screw it up and we won't know it for 3-5 years. Good luck.