Help with trip to DFW
 

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

Option C. Drive to ORD.

There's likely no solution to your problem. No one here can make the AA MLI-ORD flight you want become available with miles. Have you checked United? ANA would charge 20K miles for MLI-ORD-DFW, DFW-ORD-MLI. So would United, if you have UA miles, but Amex MR transfer to ANA if you don't have UA miles.

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If using Avios for the MLI-ORD flight, one does not have to fly in on the same day as the ORD-DFW flight. If you can find Avios availability the day before, you can pay for an inexpensive hotel at ORD, and fly to DFW on the cash ticket the next day.

What is it, under three hours Moline (I had to look it up, as I dont know every airport or city code by memory) to ORD?

Drive, park, fly.

I'm doing that today, to save hundreds of dollars on air fare for two. SMF (Sacramento, CA) - SFO San Francisco, easier to know that one) park, fly, save.