Schedule Change on PHL-ORD, affecting PHL-PEK trip
I booked this fare (PHL-PEK) in October via Orbitz and found out today that there was as significant schedule change on my PHL-ORD USAIR leg on 2/15/14. It turned my 3 hour connection in ORD to a 7 hour connection. I do not want to do that and was trying to figure out what my options are without paying any change fees. The PHL-ORD portion is on US and the ORD-PEK portion is on AA.
I'm based in DC, so ideally I'd like to change the PHL-ORD US flight to a better timed DCA-ORD flight on either UA or AA. Will they do that for me? Are both UA and AA now codeshare partners with US? If they wont do that and I have to stay on US, my second option was to book a BWI-ORD flight on US.
Worst case scenario, there is a better PHL-ORD flight on US I'd like to change to, but that'd be my last resort.
Any ideas or tips? Thanks!