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.