Originally Posted by UB6IB9
If foreign pilots aren't allowed anymore resulting in increased labour costs, the tour operator will shut down the airline, lay everyone off and go back to wetleasing. The airline needs the tour operator not the other way around. Simple as that.
Wetleasing from whom? A foreign airline?
When a Tour operator Wet-Leases a foreign carrier, that is called Fifth Freedom and local airlines can and will oppose it, as Sunwing Vacations has already learned the hard way.....
Denial of the authority to operate series of fifth freedom round-trip charter flights between Canada and various destinations, other than United Kingdom - Excel Airways Limited
https://www.otc-cta.gc.ca/eng/ruling/54-a-2005
It is possible to some extent but only on route segments between the lessor's country and the lessee's. For example, Sunwing Vacations could Wetlease Thomson to do flights between Canada and the UK, but that Thomson Aircraft would not be allowed to do flights between Canada and France......