Cheap travel and the environment

In Europe, you can fly one way between major cities for as little as $30 Cdn. Environmentalists there say cheap flights are leading to so much air traffic -- and its consequent upper-atmosphere pollution -- that Brits will have to cut emissions from their homes, factories and cars to zero in order to meet smog-cutting targets.

The always industrious BBC assigned a reporter to find out how far she could travel by air for 200 British pounds ($420 Cdn., approximately). Her findings will startle Canadians who are used to paying $420 or more for the privilege of flying round-trip between Toronto and Montreal in the presence of a snippy Air Canada flight crew.