Originally Posted by
drewguy
For the exSFO legs, getting in earlier than the posted schedule seems okay, although I suppose a 4:50am arrival (potentially earlier) may not be ideal, and could lead to a later SFO departure for that flight. For the exHKG legs, the morning flight currently leaves ~11:15, so presumably that would remain through the DST changeover. For the evening flight, seems like a later arrival in SFO doesn't change much - you get home a bit later, and your connection to a redeye is just a bit shorter.
Help me out as I must be missing something here. What's the advantage of arriving SFO in the evening and then connecting to a redeye? I guess I could see it if traveling to IAD as there's a widebody from SFO but other than that? Even then, it's still quite a bit further than connecting through ORD or EWR.