Here's the dev lore post on Aetherytes and teleportation. There's also some additional lore in the 2.4 story quests. How often you can teleport depends on where the "heroics dial" is for your character; if your character is a mundane being, the answer is "basically never," whereas if your character is a heroic adventurer sort, the answer is "fairly regularly."
In general, I go with "characters move at the speed of plot," which is to say, travel times aren't relevant as characters are where they need to be when they need to be there. If your story is travel, then it takes as long to get across as zone as your desired narrative pacing. If you're looking for more specific bounds, consider that in-game Eorzean time is greatly compressed (20x, IIRC) compared to RL time and not every location that exists in the world appears in game for technical reasons. To that end, in my mind, I usually assume travel times in game are somewhere between 200 and 600 times faster than they "should" be -- but again, I usually eschew specifics and just go with what's necessary for the story.
In general, I go with "characters move at the speed of plot," which is to say, travel times aren't relevant as characters are where they need to be when they need to be there. If your story is travel, then it takes as long to get across as zone as your desired narrative pacing. If you're looking for more specific bounds, consider that in-game Eorzean time is greatly compressed (20x, IIRC) compared to RL time and not every location that exists in the world appears in game for technical reasons. To that end, in my mind, I usually assume travel times in game are somewhere between 200 and 600 times faster than they "should" be -- but again, I usually eschew specifics and just go with what's necessary for the story.
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