OK, please 'splain, cuz I wanna be sure I get this:...you pay the same fare and fly the same flights but get substantially different EQM/RDM depending on how you booked it?...you can get the higher rather than lower yield of EQM/RDM by booking it as separate segments rather than as a "direct" flight, doing nothing else, and not paying a higher fare to book it that way?...some agents might not know how to book it as separate segments or balk it doing so for some reason (more work?), but it can be done and we should insist on it?...can this problem be avoided with united.com bookings, perhaps by starting with the "multicity" option, or united.com will force on you what you don't want in this regard?

Thanks, this is potentially useful information. I would like to mazimize EQM/RDM per $ spent, while avoiding problems when possible, so as not to need that once-in-a-lifetime exception.