The game Final Fantasy 12 has sky pirates which is really the sam thing as air pirates haha.
At first I thought nothing of it until I read that squaresoft really liked Vyse.
So they probably took the idea from the game and used it haha. They also have other smilarities XD.
I will add more games that resemble SoA and also add some characters who copies Vyse's persanlity and such haha.