Southwest Airlines Reports October Traffic

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DALLAS, Nov. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE: LUV) announced today that the Company flew 6.0 billion revenue passenger miles (RPMs) in October 2007, compared to 5.7 billion RPMs flown in October 2006. Available seat miles (ASMs) increased 5.3 percent to 8.6 billion from the October 2006 level of 8.1 billion. The load factor for the month was 70.5 percent, compared to 70.1 percent for October 2006.

For the ten months ended October 31, 2007, Southwest flew 60.8 billion RPMs, compared to 56.6 billion RPMs for the same period in 2006. Available seat miles increased 7.9 percent to 82.9 billion from the 2006 level of 76.9 billion. The year-to-date load factor was 73.4 percent, compared to 73.6 percent for the same period last year.

This release, as well as past news releases on Southwest, are available online at http://www.southwest.com/?src=IR_110207.



                            SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO.
                  PRELIMINARY COMPARATIVE TRAFFIC STATISTICS

                                                       OCTOBER

                                              2007         2006     CHANGE

    Revenue passengers carried             7,450,934    7,174,022    3.9%

    Enplaned passengers                    8,524,011    8,140,077    4.7%

    Revenue passenger miles (000)          6,034,221    5,699,016    5.9%

    Available seat miles (000)             8,565,012    8,134,393    5.3%

    Load factor                                 70.5%        70.1%   0.4 pts.

    Average length of haul                       810          794    2.0%

    Trips flown                               99,781       95,524    4.5%


                                                     YEAR-TO-DATE

                                             2007         2006      CHANGE

    Revenue passengers carried            74,407,252   69,931,748    6.4%

    Enplaned passengers                   85,559,121   80,343,065    6.5%

    Revenue passenger miles (000)         60,847,751   56,590,489    7.5%

    Available seat miles (000)            82,942,020   76,882,450    7.9%

    Load factor                                 73.4%        73.6%  (0.2)pts.

    Average length of haul                       818          809    1.1%

    Trips flown                              965,110      907,952    6.3%

SOURCE Southwest Airlines Co.

Released November 2, 2007