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** The remakes of ''VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSappnire'' let the player character ride Latias or Latios and even land in the middle of a route. Some areas of the game are only accessible this way.

* ''VideoGame/SaGa3'' has a special airship: a time-and-dimension-travelling stealth jet of sorts called "the Talon". Repairing the Talon is the major focus of most of the game, and after the midpoint the Talon is finally back in the air, heavily equipped with Cannons, Missiles, shops, a free Inn and whatever other weapons and clever doohickeys the player can find scattered throughout the worlds.

!!Non-Video Game Examples
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Eberron}}'' has a family/guild of Airship users.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' has lots and lots of airships (particularly under Haslanti League) and it's possible for a starting circle to possess one, but unless they are a Dragon-Blooded circle, flying it globally might be a challenge.

-->-- ''HaiyoreNyarkoSan''

* ''DonkeyKongCountry3DixieKongsDoubleTrouble'' starts you off with a boat, then a hovercraft that can travel across rocks, then jet ski which may travel up rapids. The ultimate craft, however, is a helicopter which lets you travel anywhere in the entire map. While it needs enough coins to be strictly a BraggingRightsReward, it is the only way to reach the secret ending.

* The VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry series gave you an airplane also through Funky's Flights. You can only take off from Funky Kong's airports but you can land anywhere you've been before.

* ''VideoGame/{{Terranigma}}'' gave you an airplane for this purpose. In a nod to reality, you have to touch down at airports (which you must help create.)

An {{RPG}} trope, especially console [=RPGs=]. See also WarpWhistle and HubLevel.

--> '''Nyarko:''' ''If we had a vehicle like this at the beginning of the story, we would be too mobile. Seafaring vehicles belong in the middle. Flying vehicles - at the end. It's common practice.''
--> '''Mahiro:''' *Slaps Nyarko vigorously* ''I hate more than anything when people are [[HoldingBackThePhlebotinum holding back like that]].''

--> '''Mahiro:''' *Slaps Nyarko vigorously* ''I hate more than anything when people are [[HoldingBackThePhlebotinum holding back like that.''

-->-- ''LightNovel\HaiyoreNyarkoSan''

-->-- ''[[LightNovel\NyarkoSan]]''

-->-- ''LightNovel\NyarkoSan''

-->-- ''LightNovel\HayoreNyarkoSan''

-->-- ''LightNovel\HaioreNyarkoSan''

** Played with in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'', where by the time you get an airship, [[spoiler: the world has been flooded by Mist and there are only two accessible locations left in the world]].

* ''{{Terranigma}}'' gave you an airplane for this purpose. In a nod to reality, you have to touch down at airports (which you must help create.)

* {{Solatorobo}} starts you off with one (the Asmodeus), as the game is set on an archipelago of {{Floating Continent}}s. However, you can't go to various towns [[YouShouldntKnowThisAlready until the game says you can]].

* About halfway through ''LittleBigAdventure'', you get to purchase your own catamaran which allows you to sail the entire southern hemisphere for free. Once reaching the northern hemisphere, you meet a flying dinosaur which will take you nearly anywhere in the northern hemisphere.
* VideoGame/KingsQuestVIIThePrincelessBride: In a late chapter, Valanice gets a magic flute that can summon lord Tsepish's horse Necromancer, which can take her from anywhere in the game to Etheria, from where she can travel to any of the game's major locations.

* The ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' series [[AlternateContinuity don't share a world]] for the most part, but one of the recurring parallels is a character named Cid, who provides an airship in the late game. Some games in the series actually provide you with an airship early in the game, but impose limitations on it (such as being unable to land in most terrain or unable to fly over mountains).

** ''VideoGame/TalesOfGraces'' has an unnamed shuttle which functions as a GlobalAirship. And yeah, [[spoiler: that's shuttle as in space shuttle. Awesome.]]

* The ''WildArms'' games (the first three, at least) usually have some form of airship or flying mechanical dragon that serves the function of a GlobalAirship. The second game also had a flying castle at one point.

* In ''StarControl 2'', [[SubspaceOrHyperspace hyperspace]] travel between planets is equivalent to a normal [=RPG=]'s wilderness travel between towns, complete with RandomEncounters. One particular alien race, if befriended, gives the player character advanced technology allowing access to a different type of hyperspace (called "[=QuasiSpace=]") where travel is faster, more fuel-efficient, and Random Encounter-free; the catch is that although you can enter [=QuasiSpace=] from anywhere, you can only leave in one of about 20 pre-defined locations, and must continue from there the normal way. One of the pre-defined locations is, naturally, right near TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon.

* ''{{Eberron}}'' has a family/guild of Airship users.
* ''{{Exalted}}'' has lots and lots of airships (particularly under Haslanti League) and it's possible for a starting circle to possess one, but unless they are a Dragon-Blooded circle, flying it globally might be a challenge.

** Similarly, the stagecoach in ''RedDeadRedemption''.

** ''VideoGame/UltimaV'' has a magic carpet that can travel to nearly anywhere on the map, but can't pass mountains or tall buildings. It returns in ''VideoGame/UltimaVII'', where it can be obtained [[DiscOneNuke shortly after the third town]]. [[GameBreakingBugs Unfortunately]], using it to travel over certain areas can cause the game to become UnwinnableByMistake.

* {{Solatorobo}} starts you off with one (the Asmodeus), as the game is set on an archipelago of FloatingContinents. However, you can't go to various towns [[YouShouldntKnowThisAlready until the game says you can]].