Thanks a lot Keyser for your reply. I went through the threads you mentioned, however I was hoping to get an idea of how much YQ is actually charged from someone who has made a redemption recently through JP.
With regards to redemption on routes which 9W operates, you're right. The new JetPrivilege site has a tool for determining the miles required for partner redemptions, I found that one cannot search for partner redemption mile requirements for a route which 9W also operates, e.g. if one selects Emirates then the BOM won't appear in the dropdown menu for selecting. the Origin airport, same is the case for Virgin as well. I assume this means that you can't book partner awards on routes also operated by 9W as you said, however for UA the tool was allowing me to search for BOM-EWR.