POWERS OF ATTORNEY FROM THE COMPANY'S DIRECTORS

Exhibit 24


POWER OF ATTORNEY

SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO.

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned director and/or
officer of SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO., a Texas corporation, does hereby make,
constitute, and appoint, HERBERT D. KELLEHER, GARY C. KELLY and DEBORAH
ACKERMAN, and each of them acting individually, his true and lawful attorney
with power to act one without the others and with full power of substitution,
to execute, deliver and file, for and on his behalf, and in his name and in his
capacity or capacities as aforesaid, (i) a Registration Statement on Form S-3
(or other appropriate form) for filing with the Securities and Exchange
Commission under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Rule 415
thereunder and (ii) any other documents in support thereof or supplemental
thereto, with respect to an issue by the Company of (a) Pass Through
Certificates and/or other secured debt obligations and (b) debenture, notes
and/or other debt obligations in an aggregate amount up to $400,000,000 (public
offering price), and (iii) any and all amendments thereto, hereby granting to
said attorneys and each of them full power and authority to do and perform each
and every act and thing whatsoever as said attorney or attorneys may deem
necessary or advisable to carry out fully the intent of the foregoing and as
the undersigned might or could do personally or in the capacity or capacities
as aforesaid, and hereby ratifying and confirming all acts and things which
said attorney or attorneys may do or cause to be done by virtue of these
presents.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the undersigned has hereunto set his hand
as of this 3rd day of May, 1995.