Connecting at Seychelles international airport

Connection time calculator, immigration and security, and how to move between terminals at SEZ.

How connections work at SEZ

At Seychelles airport, passengers connecting between two international flights can usually stay in the transit area without going through immigration. If you connect from an international to a domestic flight, you enter the country here: you go through immigration and collect and re-check your bags.

The airport has 2 terminals or concourses (International terminal, Domestic terminal (Praslin and outer islands)). They are not connected after security: changing means going through security again.

Connecting passengers go through a transfer security screening.

Connection time calculator

Is your layover at SEZ long enough? Pick your connection and get an estimate with the times of this airport.

Terminals / concourses: International terminal, Domestic terminal (Praslin and outer islands)

Getting between them: Walking outdoors to the domestic terminal (2 to 5 minutes)

Inter-island flights to Praslin and the outer islands use a separate domestic terminal, a short walk of a few hundred metres from the international terminal. Arriving from abroad you clear immigration, collect your bags, clear customs, walk outside following the signs to the domestic terminal, check in and go through security again.

Immigration on arrival can take 20 to 45 minutes at busy times; there are no immigration or customs checks between Mahé and Praslin.

  • Allow two to three hours between an international arrival and a domestic departure.
  • Domestic baggage allowances are lower (about 28 to 37 kg in total depending on the fare); heavy bags may travel on a later flight.

Estimate based on typical times at this airport, not your airline's official minimum connection time. Immigration and security lines change with the time of day and season. On a single ticket, the airline must rebook you if you miss the connection; on separate tickets, it does not.

Sources: thetraveler.org.

Times are estimates: always check with your airline.

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