Transaero Airlines (Moscow Vnukovo) has asked for and received government support last week due to its short term financial issues caused by the "current macroeconomic environment". The government has provided a state guarantee for a RUB9 billion (USD164.8 million) loan to be provided to the carrier by VTB Bank. Prior to the loan being granted, Transaero's Director General Olga Pleshakova had warned that the carrier might have to suspend operations before the end of the year already because of its financial difficulties.

Transaero said in a statement issued on December 29 that for its part, it has committed to not increase fares on domestic services until the end of 2015 and to decrease fares on monopoly domestic routes by 5-7%. It also plans to focus its network strategy on resorts in the South of Russia and on long-haul services from Moscow Domodedovo, Moscow Vnukovo and St. Petersburg to Russia's Far East. Both the strategy change and financial issues were caused by a drop in demand for international travel given the massive exchange rate losses of the rouble in recent weeks.

Transaero, Russia's second largest carrier behind Aeroflot (SU, Moscow Sheremetyevo), is the country's leader on long-haul leisure oriented routes and therefore most exposed to the drop in demand for vacations overseas. UTair (UT, Khanty-Mansiysk) has also asked for financial support and has already announced plans to cut up to 40% of its fleet.

Based on ch-aviation research, other leisure oriented carriers have also temporarily parked aircraft with iFly Airlines (F7, Moscow Vnukovo) no longer using its two A330-300s and MetroJet (Russian Federation) (Moscow Domodedovo) parking its two A320-200s.