Originally Posted by
theddo
I can certainly understand the frustration since a need for additional space for a bandaged leg was well known long before check-in and boarding, and it shouldn't have taken until you were in your seat to find out you needed to move.
But regardless you would've been told, not asked, to move for a disabled passenger.
The OP was *told* to move by a fellow passenger, not airline staff. For all we know, the disabled man had been told by BA to take an aisle seat in a different row. In addition, he might have had a boarding pass for a totally different row; there's no proof here that his assigned seat was in row 5. If BA wants to tell (order) the OP to switch seats with another passenger, either a staff/crew member should communicate this to the OP or the OP should have been given a new boarding pass with a different seat number (and ideally both of these things should have happened). Otherwise, OP still "owns" the original seat on the boarding pass and can decide/choose whether or not to swap seats with another passenger for any reason (or no reason at all).