I like to assign different real-world regions to the flights in my head. I’m a little disappointed with the whole Crystalcourt thing as it seems very European to me, like a Light Flight 2.0, and I wish Flight Rising would draw from and celebrate more real world cultures (while not fetishizing and trying to remain sensitive to real world problems, of course).
So without further ado, here are my headcanons for some of the flights’ real-world analogs! LONG lore post under the cut: