Checking IGN just now I came across an article for FF Versus XIII where Nomura confirms today that there are going to be airship that you can fly on an overworld map. So how many fans are jumping out of their chairs right now?

During the interview, Nomura made one mention of Final Fantasy Versus XIII. Asked to list a percentage completion for the game, he said, "Not everything is connected together, so the various areas have different levels of progress. However, you can fly across the world map in an air ship."
The above is taken from the IGN article that talked about it. And apparently earlier in the year they were talking about how they were working on getting Noctis to run around on the overworld map.

We're going back to the FFIX and earlier with overworld maps returning to a FF game. I've been dying to pilot an airship in a new prettified FF game.