Originally Posted by
ILovetheReds
If you are sitting in my assigned seat telling me you are in seat X, and you are sitting with your wife, I am definitely not going to be accommodating.
The issue a lot of us have here is when someone is asked to swap out a seat for a less desirable one or someone is just sitting in our seat before we board basically demanding we move to another seat.
These two sentences I can fully agree with.
Any seat change request I make is just that, a polite request. I will not take someone else's seat unless they have agreed to it, and I will only ask to swap seats with someone if I am offering one that is the same or better than the one they will be giving up (this means that when Mrs. Lee and I are both assigned middle seats somehow, we suck it up and won't ask anyone to swap with us). And if they decline, I still thank them and then quietly take my original seat.
I understand that not everyone acts that way, and that's unfortunate, but I don't think it should lead to a generalization that all seat swap requests are evil.