FWIW, I just secured two business class tickets from Add to Raleigh, NC in October 2016 using AA miles on Qatar Airlines via Doha to DFW and AA to RDU. 75,000 miles per person.

I used the same strategy to go to J'Burg from RDU.

I had to call the AA agents to arrange the flights as Qatar Airlines is not avail on their website search engine