I was asked to move so a family could be seated together at check on a flight back from BKK in club last year. I had the ‘prize’ (least bad?) no step over window seat that i’d snagged about nine months earlier... and my family who were with me were not at all surprised when I firmly declined stating it was the best seat on the plane.
“oh that’s OK” said the agent “I can put you in the matching window seat on the other side”. Absolutely fine by me! I did also ask, as we were leaving check-in, if the family who we were helping was a no-show, could they give my son the seat I’d vacated?
When we reach the gate my son gets “the bleep” and the slightly nicer seat I’d previously had. No idea how the agents ended up shuffling everything but it seems sometimes it pays to say yes to a move...