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

DALLAS, June 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Southwest Airlines Co. has been invited to speak at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch 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 website. Details of the audio webcast are as follows:

Date: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 Time: 8:05 a.m. Eastern Time Laura Wright, Senior Vice President Finance and Chief Speaker: Financial Officer Web Address: http://www.southwest.com/investor_relations Contact: Investor Relations [phone]

To access the live audio webcast on the Investor Relations homepage, go to http://www.southwest.com/ and click on "Investor Relations" under the "About Southwest" menu at the bottom of the page. A replay of the Southwest Airlines presentation will be available on the Events Calendar in the Investor Relations section of http://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 "Online Help" in the webcast browser.

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