You may want to hold up on repair. I've exchanged my MBA '13, and even with the new hardware, the sleep issue was present on both machines.
I went to genius bar twice. The first time they showed me that by removing /var/vm/sleepimage, and removing just about all my login items including Dropbox, Google Drive and Rescuetime, at least when my machine did go into sleep unexpectedly, it would not get hung.
The second time I left my machine for overnight diagnostics, and they again could not reproduce the issue, but they showed me that by running Googel Chrome, my MBA would hang on sleep.
Ok, so basically, I was having 2 issues:
#1 - my MBA goes into sleep intermittently after I log on (usually after an extended away). I believe all MBA '13s have this issue.
#2 - when going into sleep, the machine would hang (dark screen with only mouse showing) until hardware sleep. I believe this has to do with a MBA software bug depening on the way certain applications access memory.
The whole Chrome / memory thing, led me to this thread, which describes similar symptoms ("The screen just goes black, but the mouse cursor is still floating about"). Some of the users on that thread report that the dev version of OSX 10.8.5 solves the issue.
Since 10.8.5 scheduled for release soon (maybe as soon as tomorrow), I was going to wait for this update before exploring any other fixes.