Reply To: Airline seating alerts

Asking to switch seats for an equivalent seat is fine and the person being asked is free to agree or decline. It takes real chutzpah, though to request someone who has paid for a premium seat or booked early to get an aisle seat to take your middle seat for ANY reason unless it is mamash a real emergency (e.g. accompanying an ill travel companion etc.) . A preference to avoid sitting next to a woman or wanting to keep the family together is NOT an emergency.