Aetheryte

[NephthysVasudan]

Lore wise, do time pass when people use the teleports? Like for example moving from aleport to kugane?

This will sound funny...not meant to be offensive...

1: Take a screenshot of your screen in Eorzea Time format
2: Teleport to Kugane from Aleport or vice versa
3: Screenshot again.

There's your answer

In short its however long it takes for your screen to load - but off hand i'd say pretty damn near instantaneous. Prob. not something they wanted to get into too deeply.
Cost however seems to be an interesting aspect of the whole thing...what is it they use the gil for maintenance wise?

Then you got the Marriage Rings (Bond of eternity? I think its called?) how does that work exactly?

Etc..etc..etc..

[Yuriane]

Cost however seems to be an interesting aspect of the whole thing...what is it they use the gil for maintenance wise?

Probably cleaning, it is a public place after all people are bound to litter the place. That and also they were notoriously expensive to repair after the calamity so even today they're likely still paying off the debt Eorzea has been put in.

[Lambdafish]

Cost, however, seems to be an interesting aspect of the whole thing...what is it they use the gil for maintenance wise?

This was addressed in a Duty Commenced episode, it's not a maintenance cost at all. Basically, when the calamity happened, aether travel was crippled and it was a massive problem, so the syndicate of Ul-Dah stepped in to fund the reconstruction of the aethernet. The fee you pay when you teleport is paying off the massive loan that the syndicate gave to the eorzean alliance.

[Aosha]

This was addressed in a Duty Commenced episode, it's not a maintenance cost at all. Basically, when the calamity happened, aether travel was crippled and it was a massive problem, so the syndicate of Ul-Dah stepped in to fund the reconstruction of the aethernet. The fee you pay when you teleport is paying off the massive loan that the syndicate gave to the eorzean alliance.

Yup. Although that makes you wonder, why are you paying when teleporting from, say, Yanxia to the Azim Steppe?
...Lolorito, what have you been up to?

[Lambdafish]

Yup. Although that makes you wonder, why are you paying when teleporting from, say, Yanxia to the Azim Steppe?
...Lolorito, what have you been up to?

This is the plot hole that I found, nevermind those places, what about Ok' Zundu and Azyz lla?

[Mysterysword]

This is the plot hole that I found, nevermind those places, what about Ok' Zundu and Azyz lla?

Not even Ok' Zundu, who are you even paying when you teleport to Zenith? I can't imagine Hraesvelgr (my god I hate spelling their names and I never know if I got them right) would be terribly interested in gil.

For that matter, why do the Moghome moogles collect gil, both for teleport fees, and for repair/merchant services too? They've been up there for a thousand years and haven't had any contact with the spoken races (which, you'd think that an airship or two would've flown across them at some point), let alone their gil.