"It Has to Move to Another Terminal First" — Why Airport Lost Property Timelines Aren't What They Seem
"It will go to T2 in 5 days." That's not the sentence anyone wants to hear when they've already been waiting to get their wallet back. But it's an honest one, and it points at something worth understanding if you've ever lost something at a big multi-terminal airport: your item's location can change before you ever get it back — and that's normal, not a red flag. The situation: a wallet, identified, but not yet where it needed to be The wallet — ID, cards, and roughly ₹1,200 in cash — had already been found and identified by the lost property office. That's the hard part done. But it was sitting in Terminal 1, and the airport's internal process meant it would be transferred to Terminal 2 within five days, where the shipping handover would actually happen. To someone who just wants their wallet back, "it has to move to another terminal first" sounds like a delay being invented. It isn't. Large airports — Mumbai, Delhi, Ban...