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Google (Spirit Airlines data) data licensing: terms for sellers
Google (Spirit Airlines data), buyer of Spirit Airlines records.
Google won the August 2026 bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines' internal business data with a $10M bid. Separately, Google runs an invite-only pilot that pays for the delivery of non-public content.
Last verified 2026-11-02 · 3 of 10 terms published
The ten terms a seller should know
| Term | What Google (Spirit Airlines data) publishes | Source |
|---|---|---|
| What they license | Spirit's employee emails, Microsoft Teams messages, spreadsheets, calendars and operations data, for product development and AI training | iTnews (Reuters), Google to buy Spirit Airlines business data · 2026-08-19 |
| Price or bands | $10M for about 100 million emails, 500 million Teams messages and 176,000 employee records | MIT Technology Review, AI labs are buying data from dead startups · 2026-10-13 |
| Headcount floor | Not published | – |
| Years of history | Not published | – |
| Geography | Not published | – |
| Exclusivity | Not published | – |
| Payment timing | Not published | – |
| Who de-identifies | Not published | – |
| Referral bounty | Not published | – |
| Published terms page | Invite-only content partnership page; no public application route | Google, partnerships to improve our AI products · 2026-10-14 |
Who it fits
Very large record sets sold through a court process or an invited partnership. Google has no public application route.
What to watch for
- Court approval was still pending. The hearing moved from Oct 14 to Nov 6, 2026 after more than 120 lawmakers raised concerns (TravelPulse, Oct 10, 2026).
- Unions for Spirit's flight attendants and pilots objected, as did the software maker Springshot. The privacy ombudsman recommended approval on Oct 5, 2026 after passenger databases were taken out of the deal (The Next Web, Oct 9, 2026).
- micro1 filed a late $12.5M bid after the auction, and Mercor was the backup bidder at $7.5M (ch-aviation, Aug 24, 2026).
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- iTnews (Reuters), Google to buy Spirit Airlines business data 2026-08-19
- MIT Technology Review, AI labs are buying data from dead startups 2026-10-13
- TravelPulse, Spirit data sale delayed as lawmakers raise concerns 2026-10-10
- The Next Web, Spirit's privacy ombudsman backs Google's data deal 2026-10-09
- ch-aviation, court delays Google acquisition of Spirit data 2026-08-24
- Google, partnerships to improve our AI products 2026-10-14
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