ShotOne,
You really need to get your facts straight, before you start yelling Fire.
Taesa, the now defunct carrier, was doing wetleases for Apple Vacations out of Chicago.
As some other threads have shown, Apple is also using british crews on G-registered airplanes, who may or may not be US licensed. ( Not intending to start a riot here, so please) Some other tour operator was using canadian 72's out of St. Louis with Canadian Crews, you can bet they were not taking tourist to Canada in the dead of winter.
ACMI's, or wetleases, is a way for a company to try out new routes, increase lift capability rapidly without serious capital layout. But since it offends ShotOne, tell you what: We will change the concept for you. The US carrier will now setup a route from LHR to Sometown, USA. This will be their own route, but guess what, BA would still put freight on them. The ACMI concept is now gone, feel better???