The Possibility of Using Flying Boats as Public Transportation System

What is flying boats?
Boats with {NoGravity:1b}
This allows boat to sail in the air like sailing in water (travels at 8m/s), but you can't fly up or down.
How can we make this?
It's really easy to make, firstly we need to set up air ports at warps.
Here is a example of one:

The launch pad is on the ground, stepping on it will teleport you to the main station up in high air.

This is how a station looks like, I recommend to build it over y=150 (>200 is the best) and all of them should be on the same altitude (since boats can't fly up or down)

Interior of the station

Right clicking the sign will summon a boat for the player to ride (They are same as normal boat but have no gravity)

And you can have a pleasant journey while enjoying the view below!
Also, besides official stations at warps, we can allow players to build their own stations, to do this we can sell command blocks containing /summon minecraft:boat ~ 200 ~ {NoGravity:1b} at billy for like a couple of db (since you can't modify the command in survival)
What are the pros/cons?
Pros:
Nice speed (8m/s, slightly faster then walking, but not fast enough to make elytra/iceboat useless)
Little requirement of setup (no track needed)
Still makes traveling enjoyable
No need to worry about terrain obstacles (which is the most annoying part of walking.
Can be a unique aspect of our server while still being semi-vanilla
Cons:
Can lead to boat duping.
Rn you will get kicked for riding flying boat (Probably can be fixed)

This idea is still WIP so I'm open to criticism

 

It's much less flexible than flying (because you can't flying up and down and you still need a station to get off)
(This is like the difference between flying on a airplane and flying like a superman)

 

I don't really think it can be abused, the reason why track won't work is because it will mess up with player claims and rails in the sky looks weird, plus it's still a big pain for a new player to visit someone else's home far away (if you are walking getting through rough terrain is super painful and flying boats solve that) and still, it's nowhere as op as flying as flying's opens come from it's vertical transport ability (as well as it's speed)

well crafting boats and putting them everywhere is easier...
(well making summoning a boat cost 1 xp level can also help

 

I mean I can keep going with the flaws. Here's a list some I've covered already and you've ignored and some that are new:
1. Boats are entities too many entities cause problems.
2. Why just give players nerfed fly?
3. Boats can't move up and down so if a player encounters a mountain they have to go around it anyway coming back full circle with your arguement for this idea.
4. Following up on 3, yes we could put them higher than any known mountains but that would cause MORE issues with players dismounting as well as again back to 1, abandoned boats, if a player jumps off without breaking the boat a mod has to be called making more work for us.
5. You can jump off of the boat without being at the airport.
6. Theoretically even if you couldn't jump off of the boat you are suggesting putting airports AT THE WARPS, so why not just use the warp buttons if you can only dismount at the airports?!
7. (Following up on your rebuttle to boats being entities) Yes players could just make a crap ton of boats, but at least they wouldn't be flying in the air everywhere abandoned, where mods have to take time to search for them.
8. This creates more work for moderators for a whole slew of reasons, most of them mentioned above (cleaning un abandoned boats etc).
9. If we wanted a fast way around the players that voted on tpa would have voted yes unanimously and we would have had tpa, but part of this server is the adventure through the rough terrain.

Overall, this idea is cool in theory, but really really bad in practice.

Sorry.[/QUOTE]
Some explanation:
For 2, I don't really understand what you mean D:
For 2 and 4, remember that we can shoot boat off with arrows and if we put boats at y=130 (which is higher than most mountains) no mod is needed in clearing boats
For 5 and 6: I do mention making ppl able to make their own station by selling command blocks, even if that won't work players can still manually drive boats into their own ports for later use. The airports at warps are just set up for a "travel hub"
For 7: making it take a amount of xp (1-5 lvls) to summon a boat will greatly reduce boat spamming
For 9: tpa is voted out because it's too op and takes the fun of traveling away, and making your way through rough terrain is probably not that enjoyable
Again, I doubt if most players will abandon boats in mid-air, maybe we can notify the player when summoning the boat by telling "please do not leave the boat at the middle at nowhere" given most of our players are pretty nice I don't think it will be a big issue (especially when you have to invest xp on a boat)

Imma explain why I choose flying boats over other transportation method:
Rail: need loads of tracks (considering rail duping is not allowed it can be a serious pain to get the rails), need lots of man power to construct and is slow
Ice Boat: High cost of construction, hard to get around a claim
Elytra: New players can't get those
Ender pearl: It's sometime hard to throw them correctly (especially if you are in a dense forest)
tpa: takes away the fun of traveling

 

ok the quotes are all messed up here....
1. I don't think flying boats is that much of a fly when compared to elytra
2. I would say at y=130 it's less of a pain to shoot it down and even if it's too high ppl can just pillar up a bit, no mod needed in this.
3. well.... Still, players can still manually drive boats into their own ports for later use
4. Idk about price, but I do think a price is needed
6. The purpose of flying boats is to keep the fun of traveling while taking the pain away from it: remember you still need to keep pressing the w and it's not even that fast (8m/s)
7. The problem here is the definition of fly, on survival server, I see fly as mainly vertical transport (which flying boat can't offer), on the problem of horizontal transport, elytra is already there.
I would say this is still something that is worth trying, and I do think you ignored the benefits while over-amplifying the problems.