[FearNotDaniel]

Not at all. I live about halfway between two "major" international airports, each of which is about two hours by train. Or I have a local airport - ten minutes by city bus - with a much more restricted flight selection. If my destination is London, that in fact translates to a choice of five airports at the other end; and if I decide, for example, that Heathrow is my preferred arrival point, that means not only will I have a very different experience depending on the airline and hence which terminal, but also means I can decide between a direct flight from either of those more distant origins, or to take connecting flights, and thus have a further choice to make in each direction when I may be able to choose between changing in Frankfurt, Vienna, Hamburg, Cologne or Brussels. For a frequent flyer there are so many factors to consider in choosing routes, airport competitiveness is very very important indeed. Recently my home airport had me fill in a passenger survey while waiting to board, designed to elicit my reasons for choosing that airport; they hadn't even begun to scratch the surface of the multiple variables I need to take into account when booking flights.