Superjet Launch Customer Armavia Returns Unreliable Plane to Sukhoi

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Armavia has decided to return its Sukhoi Superjet 100 due to reliability problems and says it will buy a western plane instead.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nycaviation/~4/L2y-I5gyt8M
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[PhilDernerJr]

From what I hear it sounds as though this is more the airline's fault than sukhoi. ANY launch aircraft is going to have trouble in the beginning. No aircraft has ever NOT had that problem. Either they don't know anything about aviation, or they can't pay and are using this as an excuse.