In August, my wife and I have a holiday in the US, which sees us flying home to the UK on BA286 SFO/LHR at 7.25pm on Monday 5th August. Having got our international flights in place, we subsequently decided we would spend our final weekend in San Diego, and I had booked us on a SAN/SFO flight on AS at 2.30pm, landing into SFO at 4.05pm. I had been hoping that AS might check our bags through to LHR, but even if not, we would have ample time to collect and recheck.

AS has now retimed its flights that day, and rebooked us to a 3.55pm departure from SAN, landing at SFO at 5.31pm, which just starts to make me feel a little uncomfortable, especially if we cannot check our bags through to LHR. An hour's delay would leave us very exposed for our onward journey. There is an earlier AS flight at 1pm, landing 2.40pm... but that makes for a long day of travel, and nearly a five-hour lay-over. Only other possibility is using UA (1.37pm / 3.23pm).

What would wise members of this beloved forum do? I could rethink the weekend and spend the Sunday night in San Francisco - this is uncommitted vacation time. I'm not sure if status affects the through-checking possibility... FWIW I'm GGL and my wife G.