I have an upcoming work trip where four out of the five of us are Elite/Gold/Koru, but the fifth person has no status.

Obviously one of us can guest her in the lounge, but will this person be allowed to come with us through the express lane at AKL intl? Or is it strict that if you don’t have “express” on your BP you’re sent off to the regular queue?

In the past I’ve had it where either all of us have status so we obviously all go through, or where most don’t have status (so I just join them in the regular queue), but haven’t had a trip where most of us have status.