Quote Originally Posted by forumaccount View Post
Flying should be unlocked for all content upon the completion of ARR content, whether the aether currents remain in the game or not. To have the feature enabled in one batch of content only to have it disabled in the later content you are forced to linearly play through is quite jarring.
And that's why aether currents exist. It makes it apparent why you don't have flying in future zones to make it not jarring. The reason for not flying is they want you to experience the initial exploration of the zone on the ground and I don't see that changing. So aether current was a solution to this, and now with the ARR revamp, they just need to add the alternative method.