The assumption that responsibility for stopping passengers board aeroplanes lay with others was pervasive
— governments and airlines looked to Border Force but Border Force said the power was with airlines.
This is a fancy way of saying that within all the organisations involved, none of the high paid executives showed any real leadership.
It’s a scarce commodity now days, and most can’t quite cope with the concept of doing something that they know is right, but will potentially have negative impacts for them personally.