I will be off on a very long plane ride beginning at 11 a.m. Thursday morning to cover Prime Minister Harper's visit to Singapore, Mumbai, New Delhi and Amritsar. If you'd like to play along — and I hope to be tweeting (follow @davidakin or click here to get my Twitter RSS feed ) , blogging, and writing as often as I can — here's our rough itinerary. More details coming shortly:
***All times Eastern***
THU NOV 12
1100 – DEP Ottawa
— Flying all day with refueling stops in Anchorage, Alaska and Tokyo..
FRI NOV 13
1400 ARR Singapore at 1400
2300 APEC Summit begins at 2300
SUN NOV 14
0100 – APEC Leaders Retreat
0230 – APEC Business council meets with leaders
0500 – APEC cultural performance (2 Cdn reporters to provide pool coverage)
0700 – APEC leaders working dinner
2100 – APEC leaders retreat
2315 – APEC Communique released
TBD – DEP Singapore
TBD – ARR Mumbai, India
2300 – Harper does roundtable with Indian investors group
TBD – Harper has even with Canadian Tourism Convention
TBD – Harper tours set of Premier Dance League
MON NOV 15
0130 – Harper speech to business group
0845 – DEP Mumbai
1020 – ARR New Delhi
2230 – Harper meets Indian foreign affairs minister
TUE NOV 16
0030 – Harper meets Indian president
0330 – Harper visits Gandhi memorial
0500 – Harper meets Indian vice-president
0600 – Harper meets Sonia Gandhi
0830 – Harper meets Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
0900 – Harper-Singh joint press conference
WED NOV 17
0000 – DEP New Delhi
0115 – ARR Amritsar
0200 – Harper visits Golden Temple
TBD – DEP Amritsar
TBD – ARR – New Delhi
0645 – Harper participates infrastructure roundtable
1050 – DEP New Delhi
— Flying all day with one refueling stop in Croatia
THU NOV 18
ARR Ottawa at approx 0700