Southwest Airlines Declares 130th Consecutive Quarterly Dividend

DALLAS, Jan. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Southwest Airlines’ (NYSE: LUV) Board of Directors declared a quarterly dividend of $.0045 per share to Shareholders of record at the close of business on February 26, 2009 on all shares then issued and outstanding. The 130th consecutive dividend will be paid on March 19, 2009.

This release, as well as past news releases on Southwest, are available online at http://www.southwest.com/?src=INVRINV130D000000090115.