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Vilnius International Airport (VNO): arrival & transit guide

What to expect landing at Vilnius International Airport in Vilnius, Lithuania: the arrival flow, transit rules, and onward transport.

Vilnius International Airport is a single, straightforward terminal split into Schengen and non-Schengen sections, with arrivals on the ground floor and departures above. Lithuania is a Schengen member, so most flights connecting Vilnius to the rest of Europe are not subject to any passport control at all.

Arriving on a flight from another Schengen country, you go directly to baggage claim. Arriving from outside Schengen, EU and EEA passport holders with a biometric passport can use dedicated automated lanes, while everyone else queues at the standard immigration booths; whether your own passport also needs a visa follows the shared Schengen list, since Lithuania does not set its own separate one.

A connection that stays entirely within the Schengen area generally needs no second passport check. Arriving from outside Schengen and connecting onward into it, or the reverse, does mean clearing passport control on the way through, so a short layover across that boundary needs real buffer time rather than an assumed airside transfer.

Outside the terminal, a train link connects the airport directly to Vilnius city center, alongside buses and taxis.

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