Quote Originally Posted by Lemuria View Post
The only craftable airships we know of so far are the Free Company airships. They're basically like glorified retainers though, going out on sorties without player intervention. Seems a pity, since I would have liked the ability to explore my own ship and journey on it. Granted, it's not exactly a feature which would add gameplay, it's just cool and fun to ride an airship sometimes.

I almost miss FFXI's airships... then I remember the number of times I missed one by a hair and screamed at my screen. So, maybe I won't go that far.
They stated that they would increase airship function and what you want is supposed to come with patch 3.1.