Two AA questions:
1) I was able to hold an EY F ticket on AA for which EY was showing no "Guest" availability. Should I assume that ticketing will fail, or did I get lucky?
2) I'm attempting to book a return leg MLE-DOH-JFK for which each segment individually has only one award seat in business, but as married segments (on ba.com), there are three seats. I tried three different AA agents and each said that they could not marry the segments to show more than one seat. Is this a case of phantom availability on BA.com, incompetent AA agents, or a problem with AA booking systems?