User blog comment:BansheeRob/Airships and Vehicle/@comment-13593058-20170318005503

True and false at the same time.

True in the sense that there are a lack of grand airships and vehicles on this wiki.

False in the sense that every OC needs some sort of vehicle or that factions need customized airship/vehicles.

For one, most OCs here are students, meaning they attend a school with their own fleet of transportation evident in the first episode of the series and during the Vytal Festival. Keep in mind most students don't tend to have steady income (except Weiss) to afford their own personal vehicle.

Two, factions most likely use the most cost efffective and common pieces of transport/vehicles. We see can see Bullhead ebing used by the White Fang, Cinder's Faction, and Beacon. The other vehicles being the "Airship" and the "Altesian Airship". It would not be far to claim that onnly organizations of that degree can afford vehicles capable of flight.

Land vehicles on the other hand consist of literal cars (seen during the Paladin battle) and  Yang's motorcycle called Bumblebee. Even in Volume 4, Team RNJR proceeds on foot in their travels rather than aquire an airship.

So why don't we see more of these?

Because grand airships and militarized vehicles tend to draw attention in a setting where these factions are suppose to be known but small enough to have an excuse to "not be featured" on the show. If someone here created an airship equivalent in size of The Pillar of Autumn, wouldn't you think people would known about it? If people know about it why wouldn't it be mentioned?

So the point of the lack of vehicles is that their very existence breaks the believability of the faction. It's not that vehicles can't work, it's that if you do decide to manufactor them, you need various reasons of justification for their exsitence but lack of popularity and familiarity in the world.