HILO, Hawaii -- While there was scrambling and confusion for Hilo businesses on Tuesday, jobless Aloha Airlines Cargo employees came in on their own to help customers.

Early Tuesday morning at Hilo Airport, anxious FedEx workers waited for packages still stuck inside Aloha's cargo warehouse.

Papaya farmers also waited and thought of how else to get their fruit to market.

"Right now, we have nothing. We have nobody to ship it for us. Papaya, if you go by barge it's going to reach in two days, it's a ripe fruit so it might over-ripen with the time period," said Justin Manuel of Manuel Papaya Farms.

The doors eventually opened one last time for Aloha Cargo in Hilo. Former Aloha employees, most out of uniform, came in on their own time to help their customers while still reeling from the news of their layoff.

"It was a big shock I was at the passenger side and I came back over here for two days of work and to find out yesterday afternoon we don't have a job anymore, but we're here to help out whatever we can," former Aloha employee Nelson Makanani said.

The FedEx deliverymen finally got their packages.

For the Aloha employees who decided to help out when they were not required to, they are coping.

"I don't have the words for it actually. It's heartbreaking, it's disappointing, it's hard to stand here and support the employees. There's nothing to give them," Aloha worker Pua Mantz said. "We're doing this for love. It's still Aloha."