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 formation, KYC/AML checks, investor onboarding, initial aircraft conformity work |
Annual management fee | 1.5% of contributed capital | Billed quarterly to the Pod (not to you directly) | Portfolio management, reporting, compliance, and fleet planning. |
Operating fee on flight revenue | 10% of every occupied-hour charge (member flights and third-party charter) | Automatically factored into the hourly rate | 24-hour scheduling, dispatch, and flight-ops 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 flows back to the Pod, not to Craft.
Hourly rate set to anticipated cost. If the anticipated occupied-hour rate exceeds actual variable cost, the surplus is distributed back to participants as partnership profit, offsetting your effective cost per hour.
Charter revenue subsidizes owner flying. Third-party charter flights generate profit that helps cover fixed expenses (hangar, insurance, crew), reducing what the Pod must bear.
Single management layer. Craft handles both fund management and flight operations in-house, no extra middle-manager margin or stacked fees common in traditional fractional programs.
The result: no monthly dues, no fuel mark-ups, and no surprise maintenance calls. You pay the onboarding fee once, the management fee comes out of fund assets (not a personal invoice), and your only out-of-pocket cost when you fly is the published hourly rate.