open seating
Sit anywhere available
Open seating is an arrangement where people choose their own seats rather than having assigned places.
Airlines may board passengers with open seating, letting them sit wherever they like: Southwest uses open seating.
At events, open seating means no reserved tables or chairs: The reception had open seating, so we grabbed spots near the dance floor.
- walk-inWithout prior booking
- unreservedNot held back
- communalShared by a community
- unassignedNot given out
- tableHorizontal furniture surface
general admission · choose · flexible · accessible · FIFO · drop-in · free-for-all · modular furniture · freeform · informal · crowd · first come first served · first-come-first-served · space · egalitarian · cafeteria · waiting · beer hall
- cruise diningbuffet, captain's dinner, formal dinner, breakfast buffet, midnight buffet
- hospitalityhotel, hotels, warmth, kindness, welcome
- train traveltrain, railway, fare, tracks, rail
- attendanceattendance, present, absent, here, attendance sheet
- seatingoffice chair, desk chair, swivel chair, ergonomic chair, task chair
- travel classesfirst class, business class, economy class, second class, third class
open seatingassigned seating
Pre-determined seat locations
reserved seating · table assignments · place cards · seat selection · seating chart
open seatinglimited seating
open, seat, opening, sitting, opened, seats, seated, seating, unseat