On my next trip (with a large group) a lady is traveling with us who is a nervous traveller. This is only her third plane trip. We have promised her husband that one of us will sit next to her on every flight. If making sure she sits next to someone she knows let's this person travel and see the world, I can't see the problem with that. On her first trip, flights didn't go as planned due to a hurricane. So on the flights she ended up on she was separated from her husband. Was it really so wrong to ask people to switch seats so a nervous flyer could be comforted - when not in a situation of her own making?