Qantas boss Alan Joyce expects the group will regain pre-pandemic domestic capacity by January as more states and territories allow visitors.
Mr Joyce on Thursday gave more details of plans to increase flight numbers as Australia betters controls the coronavirus with a vaccinated population.
"It looks like by Christmas we will have every state open except for Western Australia, and Western Australia will open up domestically hopefully early in the new year, we assume around February," he told a Flight Centre Travel Group conference.
Qantas has one daily flight from Sydney to Melbourne as the latter city endures its last day of lockdown. There were 55 daily Qantas flights from Sydney to Melbourne before the pandemic.
Mr Joyce said the figure would climb to almost 15 in the first week of November.
The same daily flights would increase to about 30 to 40 by Christmas.
The airline boss expected this route would be close to its pre-COVID schedule by February, helped by business travel.
