i think there are unnessesary because the zeppelin fills out the two of them. it would be cool to have a faster traveling method but just removing the fighter bomber mothership thing would not make it enough balanced. the zeppelin hardly is ever used in combat exept in land based sieges with no acces for ACC's. i think there should be a a biplane category which could be used in a chunk on a friendly town claimed as an airfield and it would have the range of about the same or half of the aircraftcarrier. it would not be as quick as a zeppelin maby at little bit of speed nerf but it should be cheaper to produce and use. cargo plane is an interesting idea. it would be very benefitial but the zeppelin already fills it out a bit. you have to consider the usage of other crafts too like the cargo ship. if it gets added it should be expensive to operate and have a somekind of the same thing as the bombers and fighter jets right now by needing a mother ship or something else order to use it. this is my opinion and dont get too deep on this. i like the idea but it would make other crafts usage dead.

I guess you could make both planes more expensive to pilot than a Zeppelin. That way new players would use Zeppelins more. You could also reduce the chest capacity of the commercial plane and make the chest capacity of the cargo train a bit smaller than the cargo ship's.

Also another idea I had was for the cargo planes to be able to carry small tanks (non heavy tanks) and IFVs. That way it could bring back the use of regular tanks in sieges.

About the cargo plane needing a mother ship I dont think it would make much sense. The cargo plane would already be a massive aerial vehicle and since its speed would be lower than the Zeppelin's I think it could be considered a mothership

cargo plane*

Commercial planes are a good idea but terrible for the plane dynamics as people already are able to fight on sieges on every corner on earth it shouldnt be made easier to travel

People can fight on every corner of Earth because they change towns for that. The commercial plane would be a fun little adition for mostly smaller travels with trading/leisure purposes

So what we have here is Better Zeppelin and OP Zeppelin. I would say an argument could be made for the raising of a Zeppelins speed, but what we def dont need is basically direct Zeppelin upgrades. This would be horrible for game balance, piracy, create issues with fast traveling and basically make cargo ships, armed merchant and Zeppelins obsolete. Bad suggestion with a heavy lack of thought about how it would effect other mechanics

Add aa to Zepplines

I guess you could say it kinda takes away the purpose of the Zeppelin but you could always take away the mothership title from the cargo plane and then we'd still have a Zeppelin with a purpose.

Furthermore, I believe the commercial plane isnt the worst idea anyone has ever given since it would bring a lot of commuting between far away towns instead of just toenhopping which, for all that I know, was an unintended feature

Raptor the purpose of zeppelins to be weak. It even says on the wiki.