I am trying to figure out flights to Barcelona for next year and it's such a pain! The dates are not available yet but should be coming up in a month or two. But for the latest booking dates possible, I keep trying to find award space on BA with avios to no avail. I thought American Airlines would appear. They have biz availability listed on their own site JFK-BCN but it doesn't appear on BA. Then I was trying with Iberia, they have their own flights on that route, but if I select book with avios the biz class shows as unavailable.
Anybody know how to crack using avios on partner airlines? If I can't figure this out I'll just use AirFrance/KLM and stop in CDG as I'm much more used to booking through them.