Flight master
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A flight master is an NPC that offers a character the opportunity to obtain flight paths and to fly to other flight masters through those flight paths. They can usually be found at a roost or nest of flying transportation mounts, which are either bats, gryphons, hippogryphs, wyverns, or dragonhawks — usually depending on the race of the flight master. To discourage players from attacking flight masters, they are level 65 elites (rarely non-elites) and spawn two additional aggressive level 65 elite beasts of the appropriate transportation animal when attacked by opposite faction players. Not all flightmasters are of the same level. Flightmasters don't attack players of the opposite side unless they are themselves attacked nor help you if you are attacked by players of the opposite side.
Some flightmasters, such as several in Hellfire Peninsula, only have one option to fly to and this is usually not very far away. Bomb-dropping quests usually use this sort of flightmaster.
As of Patch 2.3, your pointer will change when you move it over a flight master:
interact with flight master 
flight master out of range
- New Flight Path
If the flight master has a new flight path for you to discover, a green 
will appear over their heads, and they will appear as a on your mini-map.
Flight master titles
Most flight masters have common titles that you can identify them with.
 Alliance |  Horde |  Neutral
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|---|---|---|
| <Gryphon Master>, <Hippogryph Master> | <Bat Handler>, <Wind Rider Master>, <Dragonhawk Master> | <Flight Master>, <Flightmaster>, <Gryphon Master> |
| <Darnassus Flight Master> | <Thunder Bluff Flight Master> | <Emerald Circle Flight Master>, <Spectral Gryphon Master>, <Dragonhawk Master> |
