Connection time calculator, immigration and security, and how to move between terminals at SJO.
At San José Juan Santamaría 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 (Main terminal (international), Domestic building).
Connecting passengers go through a transfer security screening.
Is your layover at SJO long enough? Pick your connection and get an estimate with the times of this airport.
Terminals / concourses: Main terminal (international), Domestic building
Getting between them: Walking along the pavement between the international terminal and the domestic building (about 5 minutes)
The main terminal handles all international flights. Domestic flights within Costa Rica leave from a small building on the ground level, about 250 metres away. International-to-international passengers go through transfer security without leaving the transit area and without passport control.
International to domestic or the reverse: you collect your bags and go through immigration, leave the transit area and change building.
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: cestee.es.
Times are estimates: always check with your airline.
