I must respectfully disagree with this post. I am so greatful that these airships are instance travel. Waiting 15 minutes for an airship to arrive, then take-off, the waiting for the ride itself is EXCRUCIATING. Taking a ride is neat the first time. The 1,000th time? Not so fun. Fact is, we need a fast way to get between cities. Please, if you're listening moderaters, pass on that this is a great idea and it should stay this way, at least between city states.

If you want to make everyone happy, make a longer airship ride available when you release the first expansion. For example, take the airship ride from Jeuno to Kazham from FFXI. Something like this would be the perfect opportunity to create a longer ride, which you can view the land passing underneath. Furthermore, since this airship is taking you to a more dangerous, hostile area this would be a great instance to implement Airship Pirate attacks. If you made defeating these pirates have a cool reward, then all the people upset that there is no airship ride can just ride this ship all day and kill pirates and be satisfied.

I agree that it was lots of fun taking the ferry from Selbina to Mhaura and you would have the Sea Horror spawn sometimes and very rarely a group of Skeleton Pirates would spawn and thier leader would drop a super good WHM weapon (if my memory serves me correctly). And you could fish at high levels and get great drops. Why not implement stuff like this in FFXIV on the ferry from Limsa Lominsa to Ul'dah?

But as for the airship ride between City States? No thanks! Let us just have a way to travel between them in the shortest time possible. Please! Have the ferry leave every minute. It's such a pain at the moment to head to Gridania to check if there are any Guildleves that reward Conjurer or Lancer marks just to find out there isn't and the whole trip was a waste.

I'm dissapointed so many people are worked up over such an insignificant part of the game. Now, Party Search functions and Invite Fags, that's a serious issue....

Keep up the great work developers at Square Enix!