Short Answer: Take to the Skies
The Golden Age of Piracy is said to end around 1720, but piracy as a "thing" lasted at least until the 1830s.
And you know what else was going on around then? The early days of air travel, in some of its most fanciful forms. Gliders and even hot-air balloons were around in the late 1700s. (The earliest airships-- anything like a blimp-- did not show up until the 1850s. But if you don't care about historical accuracy, pirates in blimps is a pretty cinematic visual.)
After five movies that take place predominately in boats, why not have the pirates start to exploit some of this other sea-going technology in their swashbuckling and derring-do?
The series is still a cash cow (cash sea cow?) so they probably aren't done with it yet. Adding sky-high stunts to the seafaring and land-lubbering could be the helium it needs to buoy it up again.
Or it could be a hydrogen situation, and the whole thing could blow up in everyone's faces-- which would not necessarily be the worst thing. Only the first movie got good ratings, and the most recent two had Rotten Tomato scores in the 30s. It's also OK for a series to end once it runs out of... gas.
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