Originally Posted by jkearns

If you get to the airport early and see there are problems ay ORD, you might want to see if they can put you on AA36 the nonstop DFW-MAD flight at 17h30.

As such I'd make sure I was signed up for the Madrid miles promotion MAD09 -- you might as well get the extra 5k or 10k miles if you end up going that way.

Jim