They could fill the flights tommorrow if they wanted to. It's not the Administrators job to do that, it's the new owners. The only sectors that are quiet are ML to SY, and thats only because QF do half hourly services with conservativley 30% of their pax ex- Ansett. Virgin fly the route now which doesn't help load factors. The only way to get on an Ansett flight is via the internet or walk up to the counter. Perth flights are full and they are about to increase services. Every single passenger on Ansett has made the conscious decision to fly Ansett, knowing full well that there is no catering or in- flight entertainment, many of these people are wearing suits. As soon as the new owners fire up travel agents, corporate accounts, Star Alliance on-carriage etc. things will be very busy indeed.
On the question of losing money, the two Marks have briefed flight ops. It all revolves around the Sydney terminal. They say that sitting unused it's worth $100 million, but with flights in and out, full, half-full or empty the terminal is worth $450 million. Losing between $500 thousand and $1 million a week of creditors money is nothing compared to the loss of value in an un-used terminal. These guys are a lot smarter than we are, if they weren't they'd be the losers trolling the internet to copy newspaper reports or bitching about lost causes from years ago or even picking on poor unfortunates whose only crime was being born in New Zealand!