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Spirit Airlines
Spirit Airlines in the AI training data market. Recorded here: 1 disclosed licensing deal, 7 public prices and 1 market record.
spirit.comLatest record 10 Oct 2026
licensing deals
Public prices involving Spirit Airlines
- Spirit Airlines' corporate records archive, micro1's late competing proposal after the auction (in-house de-identification)
An unsigned proposal 25% above the winning bid, filed after the auction closed; as of 14 Oct 2026 it has not displaced Google, the ombudsman wants to review micro1's plan to de-identify the data itself (Dkt. 1684), and the docket notice (ECF No. 1556) is described by a docket summary as stating no amount.
Press report, Fortune, micro1 tries to beat Google's bid to buy bankrupt Spirit Airlines data
$12.5 millionper company archive (unsigned proposal)
- Spirit Airlines' de-identified internal records (Microsoft 365 email, Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint, employee records), Google's opening auction bid
Opening bid at the 14 Aug 2026 auction, with third-party de-identification paid by the buyer. Google later won at $10.0M, so competition doubled the opening price in about two and a half hours.
Court record, Chapter11Cases, Spirit Airlines deidentified data sale (summary of Dkt. 1463, 1470, 1556)
$5 million in cashper archive (opening bid)
- Spirit Airlines' de-identified enterprise data (email, Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint, CRM, revenue management, workflow data), Google's successful bid under the signed sale agreement
Winning auction bid of 14 Aug 2026; the buyer pays all de-identification costs on top and pays the price only on delivery of de-identified data. Court approval is still pending: the sale hearing was adjourned from 14 Oct to 6 Nov 2026 (Dkt. 1695, 1703), and the 5 Oct narrowing of scope left the $10M unchanged.
Ten Million U.S. Dollars ($10,000,000.00)per company archive (aggregate purchase price)
- Spirit Airlines' de-identified internal records, Mercor's later bid conditioned on in-house de-identification
Matched Google's winning $10.0M but was not selected because it required in-house rather than third-party de-identification; Mercor's $7.5M bid on the standard terms became the alternate.
Court record, Chapter11Cases, Spirit Airlines deidentified data sale (summary of Dkt. 1463, 1470, 1556)
$10 millionper archive (conditional auction bid)
- Spirit Airlines' de-identified enterprise data, Mercor's alternate bid under its signed alternate sale agreement
The losing backup bid behind Google's $10M, on the same terms (buyer pays de-identification, no price reduction); it becomes the sale only if Google fails to close. The privacy ombudsman asked to investigate Mercor's early-2026 security incident before it could be treated as a qualified buyer (Dkt. 1684). Source moved from press to the docket.
Court record, In re Spirit Aviation Holdings, No. 25-11897 (Bankr. S.D.N.Y.), Dkt. 1463, Exhibit B (Alternate Sale Agreement, Mercor.io)
Seven Million Five Hundred Thousand U.S. Dollars ($7,500,000.00)per company archive (alternate bid)
- Spirit Airlines' de-identified internal records, Mercor's first-round alternative conditioned on de-identifying with its own tools
Not selected: the debtors ranked the $5.2 million third-party version higher, saying privacy and process factors may be outcome-determinative. The gap prices who controls de-identification.
Court record, Chapter11Cases, Spirit Airlines deidentified data sale (summary of Dkt. 1463, 1470, 1556)
$7 millionper archive (conditional auction bid)
- Spirit Airlines' de-identified internal records, Mercor's first overbid on Google's terms (third-party de-identification)
Made in the same round as Mercor's $7 million alternative that required its own de-identification; the debtors took this lower bid as the round's highest.
Court record, Chapter11Cases, Spirit Airlines deidentified data sale (summary of Dkt. 1463, 1470, 1556)
$5.2 millionper archive (auction overbid)
Licensing deals
- Aug 2026$10M
In the brokerage market
Oct 2026, transaction
$10 million winning bid, still unapproved
Approval hearing moved from 14 October to 6 November 2026; on 5 October a privacy ombudsman recommended approval if Spirit customer personal information is excluded (Reuters, via PYMNTS).
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