An award from South Africa to the US using AA can only be considered 1 award if both legs were on QR. Since the flights I'm looking at are not both on QR, it'll price as two awards.
CPT-DOH-AUH-JFK-LAX
If it book the first award CPT-DOH-AUH, can the DOH-AUH be on EY, or would I need to book CPT-DOH as one award and DOH-AUH-JFK-LAX as the other?
If I book DOH-AUH-JFK-LAX as one award, and then later on I want to change the routing based on availability and change the flight from DOH-AUH from EY to QR, would AA allow that (DOH-AUH on QR, AUH-LAX EY)?
Basically, can you make an award booking which has both QR and EY on the same ticket?