I have worked tirelessly on people and they just don't get it. I hear either, that's to much hassel or my least favorite of all "I don't want to pay an annual fee on my credit cards". To me the credit cards to the easier no brainer way to earn those miles. It took me 3 or more years to work on a lawyer friend to get an airline and hotel card but she just couldn't get past the fees. Now that she has crossed over to the other side, she's into it. "Wow, free hotels rooms in Aspen".....yeah, no kidding. I always think people know about at the very least the easiest way to earn miles but again and again I run into people, who travel, but just don't have a clue. I wonder how that is possible.