They are licenced premises. Specifically on-licences if memory serves. Its in the Sale of Likker act somewhere. From memory the plane is treated as a little piece of NZ even when overseas, licenced as a pub would be, and NZ likker laws apply.
edit had a quick squizz at the Sale of Likker act AKA THE SALE AND SUPPLY OF ALCOHOL ACT 2012, and very briefly at the Civil Aviation Act 1990 but cannot find any authority for the above proposition. I think they are correct but will ask the barrister I am meeting tomorrow (on someone elses $400 an hour....) what the answer is. I have looked at this but years ago...
Last edited by HenryDorsetCase; 4th February 2014 at 20:20. Reason: i am a terrible lawyer apparently
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Not quite what you asked, but airports with their operating license, are granted (automatically) the license to store, dispense and sell liquor - so that covers what you drink in airport bars, and what gets loaded onto planes at stopovers.
Individual airliners dispensing grog on board is licensed - or better said, permitted - by their base's regional (international) equivalent of a Airline Beverage Permit. In countries that bother to regulate that.
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