In present, almost all of larger cities in the Europe own airfield. The same is in USA, Canada or Australia. Getting flight tickets is much more usual for people, then it was 15 years earlier. But there are few huge airfields in the world, scales of it are often bigger then size of a little town. Airfields like that are capable to send people to antipodes with one tour! They are so huge, that sometimes you will need a map to avoid getting lost.