If you ever feel useless, remember Mumbai T1 has no internal connection for gates post security. [RANT ALTERT]

For context, I had an Indigo flight from Mumbai Terminal 1 to Chennai in the early morning hours.

Initially, it was scheduled to depart from gate 26 so naturally I went from those separate security gates. 2 hours before my departure and then sat down at the gate.

Just an hour before departure, they changed the gate to 10. Classic Indigo..!!! (🎶Aha ha.. haa. Haaaa... Haaaahahaa🎶)

Now anybody who has travelled from Terminal 1 knows that you have separate security for gates 9-20 and then for 21 onwards. It's like 2 separate worlds and no internal connections or transit corridor.

So I thought because I went through the security check, I won't have to do it again and there must be some way to bypass internally, right? Right?? 🐼

NOPE.

Once they changed the gate, I had to head through the same security exit which was another painful process. And then I had to go through the security check.. AGAINNN..!!!! 😭

It got so crowded (think like people boarding local from Dadar station) that, it took me 30 minutes more to do the laptop - in and out drill. Luckily, I was able to just reach in time for boarding to start.

All of this could have been avoided easily if they had not segregated security for these gates, and then made people redo it in case of gate change.

Seriously I'm somehow glad that this airport is going for redevelopment. Honestly, don't just renovate it, raze it to the ground and start once again like it never existed.

TL;DR: IndiGo pulled the classic Gate change at last minute. Because the two security gates at Terminal 1 share zero internal walkways, I had to exit the secure zone and do the entire morning airport security gauntlet twice before 7AM.