Originally Posted by
Wx4caster
if they ask for a card, you could always try, "Oh, they haven't sent me a card yet this year due to the merger". Certainly a true statement for many new elites.
At which point, you're basically just lying your way in, and ethically equivalent to sneaking in while everybody's back is turned.
If you wanted your brother to have lounge access you shoulda spent the extra fifteen thousand miles to give him a biz-class ticket...