Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE:  LUV) has been invited to speak at the Next Generation Equity Research Airline Conference. Next Generation Equity Research 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:      Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Time:      10:15 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.