The morning stand situaton is getting rather annoying. Several open stands in T3 but the one that takes the AA 763 from ORD seems to have an ERJ sprawled across it early every morning. From the sound of 24R's post it seems this isnt the only example of poor gate management.
To be fair it does happen everywhere else across the world and must be my biggest pet hate, sitting next to an empty gate, and being told we "have" to go to the one with the aircraft still parked on it.
Thankfully in that situation seat goes into bed mode and I get an extra 15 minutes asleep, so its not all bad!