Originally Posted by lhgreengrd1

OTOH, having time to travel at leisure, knowing I will not have status anymore because I retired at 45 and no longer get bazillions of FF miles from company-paid business travel, but rather I am using the miles I earned between 20 years ago and 3 years ago to fly on personal leisure only, usually for nearly free, IS mine. And BTW, the only reason I care about getting an overhead bin is that my camera gear is too valuable to stow as baggage. Fortunately, thus far, I've not actually needed to resort to cheating to get a bin for my camera gear. But I would not have a problem doing so if needed.