User blog comment:Mak23686/iGo to Japan: plane tickets/@comment-2128395-20100726022019

It doesn't sound like something that would be deemed "illegal", per se. I mean, it's not unusual for minors to fly in airplanes by themselves-- I've seen kids as young as 8 or 9 riding on a plane by themselves across the globe. We can speculate that there was a parental consent paper, but it doesn't seem like something that would be all too important-- It's not like flying halfway across the globe and staying at a hotel would require formal parental consent. But I'm sure if the situation had brought the kids to go on the trip against their parents' wishes, the iWeb Awards company would've probably obliged to what the parents' wanted and not the kids. But simply speaking, no, you don't *need* a guardian to accompany you on a plane if you're a minor.