Originally Posted by
aacharya
You should, yes. Hopefully it will let you.
It's a shame they limit E+ guests for Golds to one. I'd be okay with it being up to eight if on the same PNR.
I'd also suggest perhaps moving the son and you to E- and maybe calling and asking for daughter/wife to be in E+ instead (since you may be upgraded anyway).
I have split my daughter into her own PNR, so now just my son & are are together. I am a bit confused as I went back an read this UA Insider post
just so that everyone has an understanding of the process today, here’s a quick review. If you’re a Premier member who has not been upgraded prior to checking in, and you’re traveling with a companion, you’ll see a question asking you if you’d like to be added to the upgrade standby list. When you indicate a companion as part of this, the companion will be divided out into a new reservation and an indicator will be added to the companion reservation so that they are recognized as traveling with the Premier customer. This also allows the companion to receive Premier baggage benefits and Economy Plus seating on the return flight (even though they have been divided from the Premier).
Flight is 3.20 - so I have so time to figure it out