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Flughafen Wien
1300 Wien-Flughafen
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About this office
The passenger clearance unit at Vienna-Schwechat Airport operates 24/7, processing traveller declarations for international flights. It handles export formalities, transit procedures and intellectual property controls for air and road traffic. Austria's busiest passenger customs point.
Fun fact
In October 2024, customs officers at Vienna Airport made a record cigarette seizure in passenger traffic: three passengers from Cairo had 852 cartons (over 170,000 cigarettes), 50 kg of shisha tobacco and 6,276 potency pills packed into eleven suitcases. A 61-year-old Italian had four suitcases stuffed to the brim with contraband.
Frequently asked questions
In 2024, customs recorded 6,406 seizures - a 54% increase from 4,146 in 2023. More than 101,000 inspections were carried out covering passengers and vehicles.
The most frequently seized items are narcotics (295 kg of cannabis in 2024), undeclared cash, counterfeit branded goods (73,000 items worth 12 million euros) and cigarettes (1.6 million). Illegal medicines and CITES-protected species products also feature regularly.
The reference code for the passenger customs office (Reisendenabfertigung) at Vienna-Schwechat Airport is AT330200. This code is required in customs documents and correspondence with Austrian customs authorities.
Yes, Vienna Airport customs employs trained detector dogs. In August 2025, a dog named Brownie detected 25,000 smuggled pharmaceutical pills in a passenger's luggage arriving from India.
When crossing an EU external border, the declaration threshold is 10,000 euros. In 2024, Vienna Airport customs seized undeclared cash totalling 3.3 million euros. In April 2024 alone, 700,000 euros were found on two travellers.