I'd love to have some sort of ground transportation where you just picked your destination. One of the things I really liked about FFXI was you could see the airship landing and taking off, really created the immersion that flights were departing/arriving. Now it's just a CS (almost always skipped) that only the people in the airship zone see.

If we had ground transport, i'd like it to be in real time... be it train, wagon, chocobo caravan... just something real time so we can see something come to life in this game. I really enjoyed trying to arch my airship camera to see new angles and places, you had the whole world beneath you... was a cool experience! I really like the convenience factor of the newer airships, but it takes away from the immersion IMO.

(I know you can see airships come and go... but it's just not the same ^^")