Originally Posted by
Stripe
What was your original routing and what is it now? Do you now have a much longer layover in LAX than before? If you end your journey in LAX how will you get to SFO?
Originally Posted by
guv1976
Why are you assuming that the OP's current journey goes via LAX?
Originally Posted by
Stripe
Not assuming anything. I'm just curious what changed to delay his arrival into SFO by 9 hours. It may have some bearing on how AA will react to his request and there may be a chance he could get some suggestions here to run by AA. Did the departure from GIG move to later? Did his routing through the US change? Did a connecting flight get cancelled creating a long layover?
LAX is a likely connection point in that journey (e.g. GIG-MIA-LAX-SFO) and if it's already in his itinerary then it should be easy to get AA to drop the last segment.
I read your post that way too.
Also, LAX is a possible connection point, but hardly a "likely connection point." More likely (or at least just as likely) are GIG-MIA-SFO, GIG-MIA-DFW-SFO, GIG-MIA-CLT-SFO, GIG-MIA-ORD-SFO, and GIG-MIA-PHX-SFO.
In any event, it appears that there are a lot of options to get the OP into SFO much earlier than 8pm. Perhaps if we learn his travel date we can identify some of them for him. Given the schedule changes it seems almost certain that AA will accommodate him and get him to SFO earlier. Not sure about letting him change to LAX. And if the OP would prefer to go to LAX, I don't think any of us need to know "
why LAX is an acceptable substitute for SFO." It's sufficient for the purposes of our helping him to know if he'd still rather go into LAX even if AA can get him into SFO much earlier than 8pm.