I've been looking at fares for a possible trip in February from Perth to Zurich. One of the possible trips is EK421/87 on 8 Feb, returning 14 Feb on EK88/420. Emirates are charging $1421 return, and yesterday the Qantas codeshare price was $1561. I was considering paying the $80 extra to get 9600 FF points, but today the QF pricing has jumped to $1976. This is a huge difference - which makes me wonder if it's indicative of something changing within the Qantas/Emirates relationship? Any ideas why the difference between the "partners" is that huge?