Will Southwest fly to new markets soon? Don’t count on it.

It seems as if everyone wants to know where Southwest Airlines Co. will fly next.

After Covid-19 shut down the airline industry in 2020, Dallas-based Southwest returned with a vengeance when flying resumed. During late 2020 and throughout 2021, Southwest entered 18 new markets. According to data from Cirium, the carrier is scheduled to fly into 20 airports during the fourth quarter that it did not serve in the same period in 2019.

Many of those markets were new destinations for Southwest (NYSE:…