Honolulu / HI. (mn) This days a shipment of bread took such a long detour that it could have qualified for frequent flier miles. About 15 tons of Love´s Bakery bread was supposed to be delivered from a plant in Honolulu to nearby outer Hawaiian islands. A journey of no more than 200 miles. Instead, the bread was flown to Los Angeles then back to Hawaii. But some of the shipment had to be trucked to San Francisco and then flown to its final destination back across the Pacific to the island of Kona – a detour of nearly 5.500 miles. «This was not part of the plan», Love´s president Mike Walters said to «Mercury News». «This has been a huge fiasco». The bread´s journey was just one of the complicated, tangible – and in this case, edible – fallouts from Aloha Airlines´ bankruptcy last month. Aloha announced abruptly Monday that it was stopping all cargo service, too. Aloha had carried 85 percent of Hawaii´s inter-island cargo. Love´s Bakery, in Honolulu on the island of Oahu, was its biggest customer, flying 36.000 pounds of baked goods daily to the other islands.
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