A clarification

I realize now that I may not have explained the escort situation very clearly, so let me clarify.  Our agency works with Eastern Social Welfare Service (ESWS) in Korea.   For the past 30 years our agency in the US has not offered travel as an option for its adopting families.  They are a very small agency and just do not have the staff to help families arrange for travel to Korea.  ESWS works with many agencies in the US and other countries, and I do not know if this issue is specific to our US agency or to Eastern as a whole.   
ESWS arranges for the escort of children whose parents cannot travel to bring them home, but in recent months they have had trouble arranging for travel to NYC specifically.  It seems that Northwest Airlines has the least expensive airfare to NYC, but flies into La Guardia after a layover stop in another city for passengers to go through immigration.  ESWS used to arrange travel for escorts using Korean Air with a direct flight into JFK where the escort/baby could go through immigration, but Korean Air is apparently very expensive now.  From what I understand, they are having trouble finding escorts who are willing to deal with the addition of several extra hours of travel with an infant in tow. 
Because Emma has been ready to go for awhile now, and there are no prospective escorts to NYC for the foreseeable future, our agency has decided to bend their own rules and let us travel to pick our babies up.  There are four other families in this same situation; three families have decided to travel, and one of those families will be escorting the fourth family's daughter home. 
We tried all different options with our agency to see if we could change the city of destination, pay the difference for airfare for the escort to travel on Korean Air, etc., but we have been told that those are not options at this time.  So, I am going to Korea, hopefully with my mom, on Monday.  See next post for details.