So, I might have some of the terminology off, but here's the scenario...

I'm SE, and I'd like to book some international J travel. I'd like to pay for my ticket, in J, and collect the associated aqm/aqd, but I'd also like to bring with three members of my (extended) family on the same trip, paid in points. Note that two of the three people are NOT my direct family as AC defines it.

Problems that come out of doing this:
1- IKK doesn't like it if the owner of the account isn't on the PNR. I'll be there, I just want to pay for my ticket. Is this possible?
2- I'd like to have all four people on the same PNR so we can manage seats together, and all of the other handy things when you have multiple people on the same PNR.
3- Do we get screwy benefits? Ie, signature suite is "revenue only", so does that mean they can't come? Should I just leave them behind? (Debatable, I know.)

The big problem here is actually in routing as well. I can find the associated I/R space (thanks ExpertFlyer), but now I have to do some other interesting hurdles to get the revenue ticket and reward tickets on the same routing, nevermind PNR.

In short... this seems like it would be something people want to do a lot. Why is it so difficult? I've done this before to bring my wife with on a business trip, but it's crazy annoying and I'm always concerned she's going to get aeroplan-rerouted-- and trying to do it with 3 freeloaders rather than one is going to be even worse.