Can we not let this die yet?
Considering all the flying mounts in game/store,
there was never any risk of flying being removed completely.
From an old post I made, for people who don't realise how things
work in the world when it comes to making a change:
Paraphrasing Rum Diaries for shizzes and gigglezez.
Government wants to raise tax by 10%, but knows the people won't like it, so they raise taxes by 20%. The people !"#$%&', moan complain, life's too hard (Much like these forums). Government says, ok ok, we hear you, reduce taxes by 10% (Which was their original target anyways) and the people (Oblivious as always) thank them for it.
Blizz Dev meeting: "How can we make the playerbase jump through hoops to get flying, thus gating their play time even further, and only earning flying when we say they can have it, I was thinking some kind of pathfinder achievment system".
Simple, tell them you'll remove flying, wait for the chicken little's to come out in force, then tell them we'll meet them halfway with pathfinder, and they'll be thankful for it :P