I'm wondering if anyone has ever had a need/desire to standby for an earlier flight on the first leg of a two leg flight, without rebooking the itinerary? Right now, I have a flight from PDX to MCO connecting through MSP. The PDX flight leaves at 1am and the MSP fight leaves at 7:30am. I was hoping to leave earlier for MSP to have some extra time there, but I'm told that if I'm there more than 4 hours, its a seperate trip. I know that, and I understand that, but that doesn't mean that I wouldn't like to try getting around it.

Just curious if anyone has been able to standby for an earlier flight like that? And, what about standy by for a 1am flight, because I believe you can't standby for a flight the day before, which technically would occur.

Thanks in advance for the feedback.