Flying Mounts in Northrend

Nothing too unexpected here. There was some initial confusion regarding how you would get your flying mount training for Northrend. Currently the plan is to have it as a part of a quest chain at level 68 and require 1000 gold. This change is for 2 reasons.

• Making you wait until level 77 forces you to see all of the zones in the order they were intended to be played through. There has been a significant improvement in the overall design and feel of each zone and it would be a shame to just “fly by” (pun intended!) them without experiencing the story line along with each zone.
• The 1000g cost is simply attempting to further reduction inflation on your server’s economy by sucking probably between 25-50% of the overall gold you would have made by while leveling. Pretty lame in my opinion, but I understand blizzard’s reasoning behind it.

Cold Weather Flying was indeed a part of a quest line, but we changed it because we felt that it wasn’t clear enough where to get it.
This ability will now be purchasable instead, and the 1000 gold cost has been tuned around the amount of gold people will usually have gathered around level 77. At that level we expect you will have more than enough gold to afford getting the Cold Weather Flying ability. (source)

Cold Weather Flying Trainer