LIFE is easier now for Tika, who was born in Surabaya but works in Jakarta, especially if she doesn’t have much time to visit her parents back home. She no longer needs to waste time queuing up to buy a train ticket. She now has a choice that she would never even have considered previously, because of the cost: flying home to Surabaya. The fact that several airlines are now competing in an all-out price war means that an air ticket home is