I can see a lot of people's points about the game loosing that sense of immersion with an insta-travel airship and I completely agree that anima may make things too easy, especially since you can be teleported placed you've never visited, but I think the convience of things far outweigh the draw backs. Running from point A to point B can be a very fun part of the game (like the first time you visited Jeuno from your home city), but after doing the same thing over and over again, it gets to feel like a horrible waste of time. Game play will almost always be concentrated in a few popular areas (Whitegate comes to mind), unless the developers go out of their way to get people to travel around.