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Why is that? If you had a letter in a big pile in the post office, and the post office was late delivering it, would you expect to sort through the piles of unsorted letters to find your missing item?

But yes, what would normally happen is that if a bag missed a flight, or wasn't properly relabelled, it could end up on the carousels, go around and round for a few hours, and then get put to the side of the carousel along with all the other bags that day. The next day that particular area of baggage reclaim would be removed since typically they can't store all bags there. That photo you had, if it's in that trailer right by the front entrance, is the airport's left luggage office and if your bag is in there it won't take long to recover your bag. It suggests that TAP or ANA decided you had forgotten your bag and hasn't added it in to the trip you actually took on to Morrocco. At some point the bag would be checked and ANA the airport authority would take it back to TAP for them to send to the Tracer address. The other outcome is that it goes to a warehouse off site for processing. Now a bit of caution, these air tags are good, but what if the bag is near there but actually airside?