Southwest Airlines Adds Four Daily Nonstop Flights in Six Cities

Airline Grows Existing Service with New Flights

DALLAS, April 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Wanna get away? Southwest Airlines has just increased your options! Southwest announced today the addition of several new flights within the airline's existing network, including more nonstop flights to cities such as Phoenix, Manchester, Las Vegas, Raleigh-Durham, and Salt Lake City. With the additional service, Southwest will have its first nonstop flight between Manchester (Boston area) and Phoenix, which allows Boston Customers more options in travel and complements the existing nonstop flight between Providence and Phoenix. Southwest will also add a second nonstop between Las Vegas and Raleigh-Durham. Flights are available for booking today for travel beginning as early as August 2007. To take advantage of these new Southwest Airlines flights, visit: http://www.southwest.com/?src=PR_NS_042607.

"Southwest is dedicated to bringing Customers more nonstop flights to the places they want to go," said Kevin Krone, Southwest Airlines Vice President of Marketing, Sales, and Distribution. "We've grown tremendously in the past year. We have added nearly 200 daily departures to our schedule and announced that we will begin service to San Francisco this fall." The new Southwest Airlines flights break out as follows:

    BEGINNING August 26, 2007:

    -- One new daily nonstop roundtrip between Manchester (Boston area) and
       Phoenix.

    -- One additional daily nonstop roundtrip between Phoenix and Salt Lake
       City (for a total of eight).

    BEGINNING October 4, 2007:

    -- One additional daily nonstop roundtrip between Las Vegas and
       Raleigh-Durham (for a total of two).

    -- One additional daily nonstop roundtrip between Las Vegas and Seattle
      (for a total of four).

Southwest is offering special fares for the new nonstop flight between Manchester and Phoenix. Customers can take advantage of $99 one-way fares on this new service. These 14-day advance purchase fares are available for purchase beginning today through August 26, 2007, for travel beginning August 26, 2007, through the end of the schedule, currently November 2, 2007.

NEW SERVICE FARE SALE RULES

The Manchester to Phoenix fare is available for nonstop flights only for purchase today through August 26, 2007. All tickets must be purchased 14 days in advance. When combining fares, all ticketing restrictions apply. Seats are limited. Fares may vary by destination and day of travel and will not be available on some flights that operate during very busy travel times and holiday periods. Fares do not include a federal segment tax of $3.40 per takeoff and landing. Fares do not include airport-assessed passenger facility charges (PFC) of $4.50 one-way and U.S. government-imposed September 11th Security Fees of $2.50 one-way. Fares are subject to change until ticketed. Tickets are nonrefundable but may be applied toward the purchase of future travel on Southwest Airlines. Fares are valid on Southwest-operated published, scheduled service only and are not available through the Group Desk.

After almost 36 years of service, Southwest Airlines continues to offer the best value in airline travel. Southwest offers a very comfortable ride with premium all leather seats and plenty of legroom. Customers enjoy complimentary pillows, blankets, snacks, juice, soda, and water on all flights. Since 1987, the airline has maintained the lowest Customer complaint ratio to Customers boarded as published in the Department of Transportation's Air Travel Consumer Report. Southwest Airlines was recently named to BusinessWeek's first ever list of "Customer Service Champs," and for the eleventh year in a row, was recognized by FORTUNE as one of America's most admired companies. Southwest Airlines (NYSE: LUV), the nation's largest carrier in terms of domestic passengers enplaned, currently serves 63 cities in 32 states. Based in Dallas, Southwest currently operates more than 3,200 flights a day and has more than 32,000 Employees systemwide.

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SOURCE Southwest Airlines

Released April 26, 2007