You may want to look at the following recent threads (found by searching for "
seat swap") to get a sense of peoples' opinions on this matter. Note how all these threads are locked, as they tend to rapidly devolve into rudeness and personal attacks:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trave...tch-seats.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trave...ries-10-a.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trave...s-someone.html