If the story at the link below is reliable, it would seem that the engine manufacturer thinks the problem is isolated to test vehicles. That is good as far as it goes, but it doesn't generate a lot of confidence in either company to show up twice at major international airshows with this kind of issue lurking in the system. Hopefully the solution is relatively straightforward and Airbus won't show up again in public without fully proving the solution in advance.
http://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/2012-07-11/farnborough-a400m-engine-glitch-only-test-aircraft
Isolated to test vehicles? How could it not be isolated to test vehicles, since that's all they've built? The aircraft is not in serial production. What solution are they supposed to prove? Clearly there is no solution or they wouldn't still have the problem. Spin, spin and more spin.
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