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Avelo Airlines brings comfort dogs to airport to help alleviate travel stress

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It's the day before Thanksgiving and lots of people are heading to their travel destinations. AAA predicts 90,000 Connecticut will travel by plane for Thanksgiving.

With so many people, long lines, TSA and much more, it can be pretty stressful.

Avelo Airlines teamed up with police departments to bring comfort dogs to the Tweed New Haven Airport to greet customers on Wednesday morning as they prepared to travel to their destinations.

The comfort dogs were brought from Yale University Public Safety, Meriden Police and Southern Connecticut State University Police.

"Very busy day and it's nice to use the dogs to get them to say good morning to everybody, try to lift people's spirits," Officer Stephanie Masella, of Meriden Police, said.

They were at the airport from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m.

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