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Chapter11Cases: The Spirit Airlines deidentified data sale, auction results, objections and the September 30 hearing

18 records were read from this source, dated 14 Aug 2026 to 11 Oct 2026.

Its permanent copy in the Wayback Machine, 6 Oct 2026

Last checked 15 Oct 2026

What was read from it

Records read from this source
Record	Kind	As stated	Dated
A bankrupt airline's entire corporate archive (Spirit Airlines)	Price observation	$10M winning bid; $12.5M late offer per archive	14 Aug 2026
Spirit Airlines' de-identified internal records (Microsoft 365 email, Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint, employee records), Google's opening auction bid	Price observation	$5 million in cash per archive (opening bid)	14 Aug 2026
Spirit Airlines' de-identified internal records, Mercor's later bid conditioned on in-house de-identification	Price observation	$10 million per archive (conditional auction bid)	14 Aug 2026
Spirit Airlines' de-identified internal records, Mercor's first-round alternative conditioned on de-identifying with its own tools	Price observation	$7 million per archive (conditional auction bid)	14 Aug 2026
Spirit Airlines' de-identified internal records, Mercor's first overbid on Google's terms (third-party de-identification)	Price observation	$5.2 million per archive (auction overbid)	14 Aug 2026
Consumer privacy ombudsman (Lucy L. Thomson) and Google; Spirit Airlines: legal or policy, bankruptcy-estate corporate archive (de-identified enterprise data: email, Teams, files, tickets, code)	Market record	Report conditions approval on recommended conditions (Attachment A, not yet filed as of…	8 Sep 2026
micro1 and Spirit Airlines (debtor): transaction, bankruptcy-estate corporate archive (de-identified enterprise data: email, Teams, files, tickets, code)	Market record	$12,500,000	3 Sep 2026
Google and Spirit Airlines (In re Spirit Aviation Holdings, No. 25-11897, Bankr. S.D.N.Y.): transaction, bankruptcy-estate corporate archive (de-identified enterprise data: email, Teams, files, tickets, code)	Market record	$10,000,000	14 Aug 2026
Mercor and Spirit Airlines (debtor): transaction, bankruptcy-estate corporate archive (de-identified enterprise data: email, Teams, files, tickets, code)	Market record	$7.5 million alternate bid; also $5.2M, $7M and $10M offers	14 Aug 2026
The asset schedule of the Spirit Airlines de-identified data sale marks as included about 100 million emails across 80,000 email accounts, 17,082,644 OneDrive items, 20,577,677 SharePoint items and 500,000,000 Teams items, as the Association of Flight Attendants states in its objection (Dkt. 1489).	Supply fact	about 100 million emails; 500,000,000 Teams items	18 Aug 2026
Run a competitive process, not a bilateral talk	Negotiation lever	In the Spirit Airlines records auction three qualified bidders took Google's $5.0M…	14 Sep 2026
Who controls de-identification is worth money	Negotiation lever	In the same Spirit auction round Mercor offered $5.2M with third-party de-identification…	13 Sep 2026
Processing costs belong to the buyer	Negotiation lever	Google and micro1 each bore all de-identification costs in the Spirit sale with no price…	11 Oct 2026
Sell company records into rising demand	Negotiation lever	micro1 committed to spend $1B over 12 months acquiring and licensing enterprise…	9 Oct 2026
An auction result is not final until the sale order	Negotiation lever	Twenty days after Google won the Spirit auction at $10.0M, micro1 noticed a $12.5M…	13 Sep 2026
Sell the clean records first and the personal data separately	Negotiation lever	In the Spirit sale the competitive bidders agreed an asset schedule that excluded…	13 Sep 2026
Spirit Airlines estate sale (docket summary): "does not contemplate the transfer of the personal consumer data or e-mails of Spirit consumers"	Quote		8 Sep 2026
Content is screened as well as names	De-identification rule	Records about health, children, beliefs, sex life, union membership, ethnicity, crime,…	Sep 2026

A bankrupt airline's entire corporate archive (Spirit Airlines)
Kind
Price observation
As stated
$10M winning bid; $12.5M late offer per archive
Dated
14 Aug 2026
Spirit Airlines' de-identified internal records (Microsoft 365 email, Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint, employee records), Google's opening auction bid
Kind
Price observation
As stated
$5 million in cash per archive (opening bid)
Dated
14 Aug 2026
Spirit Airlines' de-identified internal records, Mercor's later bid conditioned on in-house de-identification
Kind
Price observation
As stated
$10 million per archive (conditional auction bid)
Dated
14 Aug 2026
Spirit Airlines' de-identified internal records, Mercor's first-round alternative conditioned on de-identifying with its own tools
Kind
Price observation
As stated
$7 million per archive (conditional auction bid)
Dated
14 Aug 2026
Spirit Airlines' de-identified internal records, Mercor's first overbid on Google's terms (third-party de-identification)
Kind
Price observation
As stated
$5.2 million per archive (auction overbid)
Dated
14 Aug 2026
Consumer privacy ombudsman (Lucy L. Thomson) and Google; Spirit Airlines: legal or policy, bankruptcy-estate corporate archive (de-identified enterprise data: email, Teams, files, tickets, code)
Kind
Market record
As stated
Report conditions approval on recommended conditions (Attachment A, not yet filed as of…
Dated
8 Sep 2026
micro1 and Spirit Airlines (debtor): transaction, bankruptcy-estate corporate archive (de-identified enterprise data: email, Teams, files, tickets, code)
Kind
Market record
As stated
$12,500,000
Dated
3 Sep 2026
Google and Spirit Airlines (In re Spirit Aviation Holdings, No. 25-11897, Bankr. S.D.N.Y.): transaction, bankruptcy-estate corporate archive (de-identified enterprise data: email, Teams, files, tickets, code)
Kind
Market record
As stated
$10,000,000
Dated
14 Aug 2026
Mercor and Spirit Airlines (debtor): transaction, bankruptcy-estate corporate archive (de-identified enterprise data: email, Teams, files, tickets, code)
Kind
Market record
As stated
$7.5 million alternate bid; also $5.2M, $7M and $10M offers
Dated
14 Aug 2026
The asset schedule of the Spirit Airlines de-identified data sale marks as included about 100 million emails across 80,000 email accounts, 17,082,644 OneDrive items, 20,577,677 SharePoint items and 500,000,000 Teams items, as the Association of Flight Attendants states in its objection (Dkt. 1489).
Kind
Supply fact
As stated
about 100 million emails; 500,000,000 Teams items
Dated
18 Aug 2026
Run a competitive process, not a bilateral talk
Kind
Negotiation lever
As stated
In the Spirit Airlines records auction three qualified bidders took Google's $5.0M…
Dated
14 Sep 2026
Who controls de-identification is worth money
Kind
Negotiation lever
As stated
In the same Spirit auction round Mercor offered $5.2M with third-party de-identification…
Dated
13 Sep 2026
Processing costs belong to the buyer
Kind
Negotiation lever
As stated
Google and micro1 each bore all de-identification costs in the Spirit sale with no price…
Dated
11 Oct 2026
Sell company records into rising demand
Kind
Negotiation lever
As stated
micro1 committed to spend $1B over 12 months acquiring and licensing enterprise…
Dated
9 Oct 2026
An auction result is not final until the sale order
Kind
Negotiation lever
As stated
Twenty days after Google won the Spirit auction at $10.0M, micro1 noticed a $12.5M…
Dated
13 Sep 2026
Sell the clean records first and the personal data separately
Kind
Negotiation lever
As stated
In the Spirit sale the competitive bidders agreed an asset schedule that excluded…
Dated
13 Sep 2026
Spirit Airlines estate sale (docket summary): "does not contemplate the transfer of the personal consumer data or e-mails of Spirit consumers"
Kind
Quote
Dated
8 Sep 2026
Content is screened as well as names
Kind
De-identification rule
As stated
Records about health, children, beliefs, sex life, union membership, ethnicity, crime,…
Dated
Sep 2026

Figures it feeds

$5MGoogle's opening bid for Spirit Airlines' records
2.5xHow far competition moved the price of Spirit Airlines' records
$7.5MHow much more the last offer for Spirit Airlines' records was than the first
50%Google's opening bid for Spirit Airlines' records as a share of the price the auction reached
35% moreHow much more one bidder offered for the same records on different de-identification terms