Due to a scheduling mistake, I had 9 hours in Toronto once on my way back from the East coast. For kicks, I spent the time trying to get on an earlier flight. The first answer was a definite "no", and I kept asking different people nicely until a nice lady found me a seat on a much sooner flight. Figured I had nothing to lose.... except my bag. It did arrive at my house on a van later that night (I assume that it came on my original flight), but I was home and happy, so the inconvenience was minor.
But, since you're connecting in LA with a big layover, you are probably going somewhere where they don't have a whole schwack of daily flights. Crossing the Pacific?
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