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Customers Can Now View Weather on southwest.com

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    DALLAS, Oct. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Should you take a sweater or
 a swimsuit, a parka or flip flops? Now you can make your packing list while
 booking your trip or checking in for a flight on southwest.com! Southwest
 Airlines enhances the Customer online experience by partnering with NBC
 Weather Plus, the country's first all-digital broadcast network and
 premiere online weather property, offering Customers accurate video weather
 forecasts and maps for each region Southwest Airlines serves. The new
 online feature is powered by the NBC Weather Plus team of meteorologists.
     The NBC Weather Plus/Southwest partnership will give southwest.com
 Customers a quality service that's user-friendly. The weather information
 will provide a needed, yet underserved service to business and leisure
 Customers. Southwest Airlines Customers can find the user-friendly weather
 forecasts by clicking on the special Weather Plus icon on southwest.com.
 Once there, they have the opportunity to choose a forecast that relates to
 their individual travel plans.
     "We are thrilled to offer such a valuable amenity on southwest.com,"
 said Kevin Krone, Southwest Airlines Vice President of Marketing, Sales,
 and Distribution. "We are constantly exploring initiatives that allow us to
 provide our Customers with the ultimate online experience. The NBC Weather
 Plus system will be a wonderful southwest.com addition."
     "We're very pleased to join forces with Southwest Airlines to provide
 travelers with up-to-the-minute weather information," said Cheryl Winer,
 Sales Leader at NBC Weather Plus. "Travel and weather go hand in hand, and
 we're delighted that Weather Plus can now add to the quality and
 convenience of the Southwest travel experience."
     After 36 years of service, Southwest Airlines continues to offer the
 best value in airline travel, allowing Customers the opportunity to travel
 nonstop throughout the country at a very low fare. Southwest offers a very
 comfortable ride with premium all leather seats and plenty of legroom.
 Southwest does not charge Customers an extra fee for changing their
 reservation and continues to offer free amenities like complimentary
 pillows, blankets, snacks, juice, soda, and water on all flights. Since
 1987, the airline has maintained the fewest overall Customer complaints as
 published in the Department of Transportation's Air Travel Consumer Report.
 Southwest Airlines (NYSE:   LUV), the nation's largest carrier in terms of
 domestic passengers enplaned, currently serves 64 cities in 32 states.
 Based in Dallas, Southwest currently operates more than 3,300 flights a day
 and has more than 33,000 Employees systemwide.
     NBC Universal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment
 companies in the development, production, and marketing of entertainment,
 news, and information to a global audience. Formed in May 2004 through the
 combining of NBC and Vivendi Universal Entertainment, NBC Universal owns
 and operates a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment networks, a
 premier motion picture company, significant television production
 operations, a leading television stations group, and world-renowned theme
 parks. NBC Universal is 80% owned by General Electric and 20% owned by
 Vivendi.
     http://www.southwest.com
 
 

SOURCE Southwest Airlines