For the past week or so American’s website has had intermittent issues when searching for and booking award travel. The site has frequently errored out, necessitating a call. Fortunately American no longer charges a telephone booking fee for awards that cannot be booked online (which unfortunately remains the majority of partner airline awards).
For the past few days there have been several reports of American’s phone agents unable to see Etihad first class award space that can easily be found on the Etihad site.