Originally Posted by
Slickw
Arrived NRT > IAH on ANA first. Airport employee was standing at the bridge with my name on a sign. I'd never heard of ANA offering any ground service upon arrival but chalked it up to being similar to services offered by Thai.
ANA does this for certain passengers. That's what this was.
Plane-side-originated secondary screening in the US operates (among other ways) with passport checks of every person deplaning at the gate conducted by CBP, not sign-holding by airport employees.