DALLAS , March 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE: LUV) has been invited to speak at the J.P. Morgan Aviation & Transportation Conference. J.P. Morgan 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: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 Time: 9:00 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.