Originally Posted by
cxfan1960
IIRC, my daughter asked a flight attendant on a SFO-HKG flight back when she was below 21. They couldn't serve her alcohol until the equipment was over the Pacific, but I might be wrong.
Your travel companion can ask for alcoholic drinks, and in the worst scenario, they just won't serve him.
So leaving from Chicago, they'd let them have drinks once they LEAVE US airspace... maybe 4 hours into the flight. But coming back... I wonder if they would even watch when the flight ENTERS US airspace and then come rip the drink out of their hand.
There is a similar thread somewhere in this forum. I thought one poster indicated that they just needed to wait until they were airborne (when leaving the USA). And that was only if they got asked, which wasn't often anyway.
I wonder what would happen if you just gave your drink to the travelling companion?
Of course, none of this is THAT critical.... hopefully underage kids don't NEED a drink that badly!