"Compared with the major airports, going to a regional airport is more like getting picked up by a schoolbus at the end of your street than going to the Port Authority, " said Tripp Swanhaus, a Manhattan-based reality-TV producer who frequently eschews larger airways for secondary-city regionals.
Michelle Knight, now 32 years old, Amanda Berry, 27, and Gina DeJesus, 23, have yet to speak publicly about their ordeal since Monday, when they were discovered at a Cleveland house owned by a former school-bus driver, following an escape by Ms. Berry and her 6-year-old daughter.