Originally Posted by
gglave
Sure they are. Of the dozen or so swaps I've been asked to do over the past few years, they've all been equal (I define moving two or three rows forwards or back as 'equal,' as is, in most cases, moving from the left window to the right window). I've never been asked to take a middle or move from E+ to E-.
Apparently I've had different experiences.

The last one, as I just mentioned, was someone wanting me to swap my aisle seat for his middle seat. Before that, it was a family wanting to swap my PP seat for a regular seat 5+ rows back. Before that....