Aeroflot (SU, Moscow Sheremetyevo International (SVO)) has announced plans to transfer some of its Moscow Sheremetyevo International (SVO) flights, to Moscow Vnukovo International (VKO) during Winter 2013/14 as a result of "infrastructural limitations at Sheremetyevo Airport." While no details have been divulged, an Aeroflot spokesman said an announcement would be made "after May 15". The airline is expected to mainly move its leisure-bound routes, that don't connect with other flights, to Vnukovo. Last year, Transaero Airlines (UN, Moscow Domodedovo International (DME)), too, transferred some of its flights from Moscow Domodedovo International (DME) to Vnukovo due to capacity issues.

Transaero Airlines (UN, Moscow Domodedovo International (DME)) has added its first Tu-204(F) (RA-64052 / MSN 64052) to its fleet as its first cargo aircraft. Transaero CEO, Olga Pleshakova has gone on record as saying that, aside from the favorable financial terms the airline had been offered by Tupolev, "the addition of Tu-204(F) aircraft would allow Transaero to carry out their MRO (Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul) together with their fleet of three Tu-214s", which resumed scheduled flights as of mid-March. Pleshakova added that "the freighters will perform mostly domestic flights with a large share of operations in Russia's Far East."

Uzbekistan Airways (HY, Tashkent Yuzhny (TAS)) will not have to worry about an impending embargo of its Russia-bound flights following the recent resolution of an impasse between Uzbekistan and Russia over unpaid airline remittances. According to Uzmetronom, in anticipation of a visit to Moscow by Uzbek strongman, Islam Karimov, on April 15, Tashkent has moved “to pay all outstanding debts owed to Russian airlines” that were previously withheld as a result of Uzbek currency restrictions. Had the payments not been made, Moscow had threatened to ban all Uzbek flights to Russia, though surprisingly Aeroflot (SU, Moscow Sheremetyevo International (SVO)) and Transaero Airlines (UN, Moscow Domodedovo International (DME)) are quoted as saying they would have added capacity on their Uzbekistan-bound flights had the embargo come into effect.

Transaero Airlines (UN, Moscow Domodedovo International (DME)) will take delivery of 12 new B737-800s between 2015 and 2016 as part of a lease deal with Russia's largest bank, Sberbank. Speaking in Washington, D.C. at the signing ceremony with Boeing (BOE, Chicago O'Hare International (ORD)), Sberbank CEO, Herman Gref, said that the Transaero deal was only the first step in a much larger plan which will ultimately see the purchase of 100 aircraft, mostly 737s, over the next ten years. Graf said the next order would likely to be for 30-50 aircraft with Sberbank currently holding talks with Russian airlines such as Aeroflot (SU, Moscow Sheremetyevo International (SVO)) and "several others" regarding possible lease-deals. For its part, Boeing projects demand for "1,000 commercial aircraft in Russia over the next 20 years." Transaero currently already operates 11 second hand B737-800s and is about to add two more ex-Air Europa (UX, Palma de Mallorca Son Sant Joan (PMI)) and Luxair (LG, Luxembourg Findel International (LUX)) aircraft shortly.

Transaero Airlines (UN, Moscow Domodedovo International (DME)) has announced that it has decided to temporarily ground its fleet of three Tu-214s until the initial investigation of the accident of Red Wings (WZ, Moscow Vnukovo International (VKO)) Tu-204-100 RA-64047 (MSN 64047) at Moscow Vnukovo International (VKO) on December 29 is completed. Two other Red Wings incidents involving runway overruns in November and December have caused an investigation by the Interstate Aviation Committee into possible brakes malfunctions with the aircraft type.