Speaking to reporters at the company's annual New Year's news conference, Gallois told reporters orders were "better than expected" in 2010, while the group's cash flow was "excellent."
"This shows the crisis is behind us," Gallois said in the western Paris suburb of Les Mureaux.
Still, profitability at the jet maker will continue to be hurt by costs incurred in sorting out Airbus' troubled A380 superjumbo program, he said. The group's underlying profitability "will be the same order of magnitude as in 2010, which means not satisfactory," he said.
EADS forecasts underlying profit of euro1.2 billion ($1.6 billion) for 2010
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