Originally Posted by defrosted

I asked this same question, although I wasn't in different itineraries they made it very clear for the other people to take advantage of my (also gold) status they had to be in the SAME reservation as I was. Saying they are "with you" means nothing unless you are on the same reservation.

You might get by security and even boarding with a bunch of paper boarding passes, but it won't work for free bags. Although you could check some of theirs as your bags to avoid cost since you get 3 per person in first. Between the 7 if you if you keep it to six bags you won't have to pay.