yep, saturdays service was chockas coming back, have friends travelling down with xr and it was around $300 cheaper than qf, here is where cunninlinguist makes a good point, high load factor is only one side of the equation, if the yield is crap the service will lose money, maybe xr can subisidise this with the argyle service.
a lot of the seats are deep discounted, $250 one way, or sold with dirt cheap holiday packages, good luck to them tho, i hope they do well, tho when virgin enters the market tha will be the test.