Think of balancing issues though, in BF2 you could hide from air pretty easily if you knew how, but in SW these ships are not anti-infantry, they are made to kill other ships.  If anyone played Battlefront 1  you will remember how realisticly powerful starfighters where, killing at-st's with almost entirely with one missile at its cockpit.  Not to mention how fast these fighters realy WOULD move, if as a previous post stated, we would like to see combined gameplay, it will not be possible with these fighters.  Also no starfighters have a good design for flying in atmosphere, and I think that the design of other craft designed for air travel aids to speed and menuverability, despite the techknowlagy actualy keeping them flying.  Remember, this isn't about "what could be done" it's about what a battle would have in it when being fought on the ground(imo)  Some new hovercraft for perhaps deployment of troops would be a cool vehicle that would add new gameplay.  Maybe you guys could dig up some craft that could match helicopters and such that can be good against infantry(ground battles should be more about classic FPS gameplay and space battles more about well....spase battles, imo).
My first post here, I ordered new computer and plan on installing my copy of BF2142 and then this mod asap!!!

Aircraft on mos espa would kill more people through crashing than bombing.