These days the check in bags aren’t coming of Air India One as most of the nights, the Prime Minister aims at sleeping on the plane rather than in foreign hotels to reduce his trips. Recently he has made a visit to Belgium, US and Saudi Arabia; Narendra Modi has spent three nights on Air India One, while in transit from Delhi to Brussels, from Brussels to Washington DC and from there to Riyadh.
The PM has just spent two nights at Hotel, one in Washington and the other at Riyadh. When the former Minister Manmohan Singh had made a visit longer and largely summit related and single city engagements, overnight travel was occasional.
Modi’s plan is to save unproductive night stay in foreign hotels and uses it for air travel. Modi in his first two years as PM would have spent 95days abroad which is much more than Manmohan Singh’s 72 days abroad in his first two years in UPA-1 and UPA-2 and Modi has told he wants to push maximum buttons and he has unending energy.
An official has stated that on the plane too Modi doesn’t sleeps throughout the time on his flat bed cabin. He needs a detailed debriefing on the plane after one leg of the trip is over. He has said that the PM needs a briefing within 30 minutes of checking into a foreign hotel too before the bilateral commence.
