Spirit Airlines Wants to Sell Its Data to Google. Former Flight Attendants Are Freaked Out

“It never crossed my mind that they would be so bold as to sell our private data for AI,” says one former Spirit Airlines flight attendant.

To make matters worse, the plaintiff received a call days later from American's corporate security department, who accused him of "passenger misconduct."

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According to reports, the woman's husband told staff that she had done something "outrageous" - emergency services rushed to the scene and the woman was pronounced dead

Failing in today’s business world means being at the mercy of the AI training frenzy.

Spirit Airlines. GIORGIO VIERA / AFP via Getty Images Micro1 says it's making an offer "materially higher" than Google's for Spirit Airlines' data. The AI startup told the airline it will pay $12.5 million for its data. Bankruptcy experts say overturning the deal is possible, but a long shot. Another AI company wants

The flight attendants want assurance that their confidential information will be removed from the sale of the defunct airline’s digital records.

Bankrupt Spirit accused of selling out workers in massive data sale to Google.

Tech giant has assured former airline employees and customers that the data will be scrubbed of identifying information

Forbes Daily: Google Wants To Use Spirit Airlines’ Data To Train AI  Forbes

Google has won a bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines' internal data, paying $10 million for roughly 100 million emails, 500 million Microsoft Teams messages, 30 million lines of code and 175,658 employee records. The defunct airline's archive shows how work actually happened, step by step, which is exactly what AI a

US court delays hearing on Google's purchase of Spirit Airlines data as union objects  Reuters

Did you ever fly on Spirit Airlines? Or work there? Or send an email to someone who worked there? Then your information will soon be feeding Google’s artificial intelligence model.

Spirit Airlines’s abrupt shutdown in May was unprecedented for the airline industry. Bankruptcy may be nothing new, but Spirit completely dissolving, rather than being absorbed by another airline, marked the first major U.S. airline to entirely halt operations in 25 years. Travelers mourned the only reliably cheap opti

Google is buying all of Spirit Airlines’ data to feed its AI models | CNN Business  cnn.com

The deal, which covers about 100 million emails and 500 million Microsoft Teams chats, still requires a federal judge's approval

$10 million buys over 100 million emails, 30 million recorded phone calls, reams of stuff from Teams, Oracle, and SAP

Alphabet's Google is acquiring ​internal business data from bankrupt ‌Spirit Airlines for $10 million, saying it plans to use the data ​for product development and ​training its AI models.

FILE PHOTO: The Google logo is seen outside the company's offices in London, Britain, June 24, 2025. REUTERS/Carlos Jasso/File Photo 18 Aug 2026 05:24AM (Updated: 18 Aug 2026 05:30AM) NEW YORK, Aug 17 : Alphabet's Google is acquiring internal business data from bankrupt Spirit Airlines for $10 million, saying it plans