Originally Posted by
TradingFiend
I’m wondering if the OP is willing to consider other airlines. If the only choices are UA and CA, then the alternate, besides the choices mentioned above, would be: the OP could leave from XMN the next day, enabling the OP to leave in the morning.
Good luck!
Oh, I completely forgot that XMN has a fair amount of international service. Not sure if the flight times would work, but ANA has flights from XMN to NRT, from which you could do ANA in C to SFO or Singapore Airlines to LAX (I'm assuming OP's destination is SAN).
Other reasonable international options from XMN are Osaka or Seoul, both of which will provide onward options on Star Alliance flights to SFO.