KrohnAir was founded in 1987 by Gerald T. Krohn, a former accountant who had a simple dream: to run an airline the right way. The old-fashioned way. The paper way.

"I looked at what the other airlines were doing with their computers and their 'databases' and I thought — that's a disaster waiting to happen," Gerald told Aviation Monthly in 1993. "Paper doesn't crash. Paper doesn't get a virus. Paper just works."

Starting with a single leased DC-9 and a filing cabinet he bought at a garage sale, Gerald built KrohnAir from the ground up. Today we operate 7 aircraft serving 12 destinations across the continental United States, all managed with absolutely zero computers.

Our operations center features 47 filing cabinets, a 30-foot wall map with colored pushpins, three whiteboards, and a fax machine (the fax machine was controversial but Gerald eventually allowed it in 1994).

We believe that aviation safety comes from human attention, not machine automation. Every manifest is checked by hand. Every passenger list is counted twice. Every fuel calculation is verified with a calculator (a non-networked calculator, naturally).

Our pilots are required to maintain the most detailed paper logbooks in the industry. Our ground crew uses clipboards. Our gate agents have really nice pens.

Is it slower? Sometimes. Is it more work? Absolutely. But when you board a KrohnAir flight, you can rest easy knowing that a real human being wrote your name on that boarding pass with their own hand. And that means something.