Hi, here's my problem: I found several tickets to travel from ORD to DFW for $86 - $90. I have no problem paying paying cash or just using a credit card for this purchase.
Now my problem: I live in a small area MLi. It will cost me $750-$800 for a flight out of my hub for two tickets. I have an BA account with no rewards in it, however I do have a American express account with 50,000 points in it.
I could transfer 30,000 pts over to the ba account to use for the trip to DFW and leave from my hub -mli
Or use a grand total of 18,000 avois points to go from my hub which is mli to ord, ohare airport. and then pay the $200 for the two ticket. This is what I would like to do, however I cannot find a connection with the correct time to connect after traveling to ord from mli.

If I just buy a ticket to go to dfw from mli, the plane will stop in ord than go to dfw. If I try to book a flight to ord using ba, which will let me use aa, it will not offer the specific time that I need to be at the ord before the next flight goes out to dfw.
Can someone give me some help please, trying to solve this problem.
Thanks