Southwest Airlines Co. to Present at the Bank of America - Merrill Lynch 2009 Global Transportation Conference

DALLAS, June 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE: LUV) has been invited to speak at the Bank of America - Merrill Lynch 2009 Global Transportation Conference. Bank of America - Merrill Lynch will be webcasting the audio presentation live, and a link to the webcast will be made available via the Investor Relations homepage on the Southwest Airlines web site. Details of the audio webcast are as follows:

    Date:           Thursday, June 11, 2009

    Time:           8:00 a.m. Eastern Time

    Speaker:        Gary Kelly, Chairman, President and Chief Executive
                    Officer

    Web Address:    www.southwest.com

    Contact:        Investor Relations (214) 792-4415

To access the live audio webcast on the Investor Relations homepage, click on "About Southwest" and select Investor Relations from the "About SWA" sidebar menu. A replay of the Southwest Airlines presentation will be available on the Events Calendar in the Investor Relations section of www.southwest.com.

Minimum Requirements to listen to broadcast:

Windows Media Player software, downloadable free from http://www.microsoft.com, and at least a 56K bps connection to the Internet. If you experience problems listening to the webcast, click on the help menu in the webcast browser.

SOURCE Southwest Airlines Co.

Released June 5, 2009