Southwest Airlines Co. to Present at the Merrill Lynch Global Transportation Conference

DALLAS, June 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE: LUV) has been invited to speak at the Merrill Lynch Global Transportation Conference. 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 website. Details of the audio webcast are as follows:

    Date:        Wednesday, June 18, 2008

    Time:        8:00 a.m. Eastern Time

    Speaker:     Gary Kelly, Chairman and CEO

    Web Address: http://www.southwest.com

    Contact:     Investor Relations (214) 792-4415

To access the Investor Relations homepage, click on "About Southwest" and select Investor Relations from the "About SWA" sidebar menu. If you are unable to participate during the live audio webcast, a replay will be available for 14 days on the Events Calendar in the Investor Relations section of our website.

Minimum Requirements to listen to broadcast:

The 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 17, 2008