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Oct 20, 2012 | 11:38 pm

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Originally Posted by medic51vrf

I have a friend (daughter of a friend) who is 19 and is flying from MEL (maybe SYD?) to LAX and back and was asking me about the drinking age for her flights. It's 18 in Oz and 21 in the US, so what is it on a TPAC flight? Does it depend on the origin or the destination?

I told her to ring QF and if she didn't get anywhere I'd try and help. Doubt she will, though. She's a bit intimidated (or something?) about ringing them. Any thoughts in the meantime?

Drinking age depends on the metal you are on. So an American plane will enforce American regulation even when flying from Japan to Thailand. A Qantas plane will apply Australian law for an international flight.