Craft Pod uses three transparent fees, nothing hidden, nothing piled on later.
Fee type | Rate | When it’s charged | What it covers |
One-time onboarding fee | 5% of your initial contribution | Paid at closing | Legal setup, KYC/AML checks, investor onboarding, and aircraft conformity inspections |
Annual management fee | 1.5% of contributed capital | Billed quarterly (to the Pod, not directly to you) | Portfolio management, reporting, compliance, fleet planning |
Operating fee on flight revenue | 10% of every occupied-hour charge (member flights and third-party charter) | Built into the hourly rate automatically | 24/7 scheduling, dispatch, and flight-operations support |
Why this structure keeps total costs low
No mark-ups on aircraft or maintenance.
Craft buys and sells jets at true market prices. Any upside goes back to the Pod, not to Craft.
Hourly rate set to anticipated cost.
The published occupied-hour rate is set based on expected costs. If actual costs come in lower, the surplus is distributed back to participants as partnership profit, lowering your effective cost per hour.
Charter revenue subsidizes owner flying.
Third-party charter flights generate profit, helping cover fixed expenses (hangar, insurance, crew), reducing the costs the Pod must bear.
Lean management layer.
Craft handles both fund management and flight operations in-house, no extra middleman fees, or stacked margins you'd see in traditional fractional programs.
The result:
No monthly dues, no fuel mark-ups, and no surprise maintenance bills. You pay the onboarding fee once, the management fee comes out of fund (not a personal invoice), and your only out-of-pocket expense when you fly is the published hourly rate.
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