Flyertalk has always been a great help to me and I can usually find answers without posting,,,,,until tonight.

Need some help with changing a flight.

2 months ago I bought a roundtrip ticket SFO-Clark, Philippines. I bought the ticket online using the Cathay website. My original return date was 11/21.

Tonight I get an email from Cathay saying that they changed my Clark-HKG leg to 1 day earlier 11/20. This leaves me a 25 hour layover in HKG. Plus I need to still be in the Philippines on the night of the 20th, so this doesn’t work.

Tonight I called the MPC number (I am a silver) to try and change the return to MNL-SFO on 11/21. After being on hold for about 30 minutes they told me that there was nothing they could do for me. Something about it being a paid ticket and that the change was with Dragon not Cathay.

Any recommendations on how to switch my ticket? Do I have to cancel and rebook? I am sure this will cost me some fees.

Thanks.