Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Between AUS, EWR, and YTO In a little twisty maze of airline seats, all alike.. but I wanna go home with the armadillo
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There is a flight from SJC at 8:35am. I would try to get onto that one. There are also earlier flights from SFO and OAK.
If you missed your scheduled 40 minute connection for weather or ATC reasons you would almost certainly need to wait until the next day to travel.