Southwest Airlines Co. to Present at the Raymond James Growth Airline Conference

DALLAS, Feb. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE: LUV) has been invited to speak at the Raymond James Growth Airline Conference. Raymond James 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, February 5, 2009

          Time:         12:40 p.m. Eastern Time

          Speaker:      Laura Wright, Senior Vice President Finance and Chief
                        Financial 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 for seven days 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 February 3, 2009