Originally Posted by the strange guy
Sorry, I didn't realise that. When you say I must reissue my ticket and pay the fee, do you mean the $125 route change fee? I'm more than happy to pay this.
Yes, but that's only one hurdle. The real tough one is to get L availability from NRT to the US on the date you want (27th). I just looked, and there's none, to any of the US gateways. My suggestion would be to talk to CX. IF (and only if) you can re-reoute via HKG under the ticket rules (impossible for us to say without knowing what flights you have taken so far) then that would be, I think, the only possibility left to make it into SFO on the 27th, unless, of course, you are willing to fly on the 26th.