UNITED
STATES
SECURITIES
AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington,
D.C. 20549
FORM
8-K
CURRENT
REPORT
Pursuant
to Section 13 OR 15(d) of The Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of
Report (Date of earliest event
reported): March
26, 2009
Southwest
Airlines Co.
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(Exact
name of registrant as specified in its charter)
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Texas
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1-7259
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74-1563240
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(State
or other jurisdiction
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(Commission
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(I.R.S.
Employer
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of
incorporation)
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File
Number)
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Identification
No.)
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P.
O. Box 36611, Dallas, Texas
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75235-1611
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(Address
of principal executive offices)
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(Zip
Code)
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Registrant's
telephone number, including area code: (214)
792-4000
Not
Applicable
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(Former
name or former address, if changed since last report)
Check the
appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously
satisfy the
filing
obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:
[ ] Written
communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act
(17 CFR
230.425)
[ ] Soliciting
material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17
CFR
240.14a-12)
[ ] Pre-commencement
communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the
Exchange
Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))
[ ] Pre-commencement
communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the
Exchange
Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))
Item
8.01 Other Events.
Attached
as Exhibit 100 to this Current Report on Form 8-K are the following materials
from Southwest Airlines Co.’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended
December 31, 2008, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February
2, 2009, formatted in XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language): (i)
Consolidated Balance Sheet, (ii) Consolidated Statement of Income, (iii)
Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows, and (iv) Consolidated Statement of
Stockholders’ Equity. Users of this data are advised pursuant to Rule
401 of Regulation S-T that the financial information contained in the XBRL
documents is unaudited and these are not the official publicly filed financial
statements of Southwest Airlines Co. The purpose of submitting these
XBRL formatted documents is to test the related format and technology and, as a
result, investors should continue to rely on the official filed version of the
furnished documents and not rely on the information in this Current Report on
Form 8-K, including Exhibit 100, in making investment decisions.
In
accordance with Rule 402 of Regulation S-T, the information in this Current
Report on Form 8-K, including Exhibit 100, shall not be deemed “filed” for the
purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the
“Exchange Act”), or otherwise subject to the liability of that section, and
shall not be incorporated by reference into any registration statement or other
document filed under Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act,
except as shall be expressly set forth by specific reference in such
filing.
Item
9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d) Exhibits:
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100
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The
following materials from Southwest Airlines Co.’s Annual Report on Form
10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008, filed on February 2, 2009,
formatted in XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language): (i)
Consolidated Balance Sheet, (ii) Consolidated Statement of Income, (iii)
Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows, and (iv) Consolidated Statement of
Stockholders’ Equity.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has
duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto
duly authorized.
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SOUTHWEST
AIRLINES CO.
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Date:
March
26,
2009
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By
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/s/ Laura Wright
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Laura
Wright
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Chief
Financial Officer
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(Principal
Financial and
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Accounting
Officer)
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EXHIBIT
INDEX
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Exhibit
No.
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Description
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EX-100.INS
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XBRL
Instance Document
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EX-100.SCH
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XBRL
Taxonomy Extension Schema Document
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EX-100.PRE
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XBRL
Taxonomy Presentation Linkbase Document
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EX-100.LAB
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XBRL
Taxonomy Label Linkbase Document
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EX-100.CAL
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XBRL
Taxonomy Calculation Linkbase Document
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EX-100.REF
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XBRL
Taxonomy Reference Linkbase Document
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EX-100.DEF
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XBRL
Taxonomy Definition Linkbase
Document
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