Settle the employee-data question before going to market
The Spirit records sale hearing, first noticed for 19 August 2026, has been adjourned five times and now sits at 6 November; the 9 October notice says the debtors are still negotiating with objectors over personally identifiable or sensitive employee information, which the privacy ombudsman's consumer-only mandate does not cover. Four unions and EPIC (as amicus) object, and EPIC says no employer has previously tried to sell its employees' data as an asset in bankruptcy.
Dated 14 Oct 2026Source checked 14 Oct 2026Page out of reach at the last check, 16 Oct 2026Basis: strong
“Status: This matter has been adjourned to 11:00 a.m. on November 6, 2026.”
In re Spirit Aviation Holdings, No. 25-11897, Dkt. 1703 (Amended agenda for the 14 October 2026 hearing), checked 12 Oct 2026
Chapter11Cases: Spirit Airlines case update, the data sale slips to November, checked 14 Oct 2026
In re Spirit Aviation Holdings, Dkt. 1684 (Consumer Privacy Ombudsman supplemental report, 5 October 2026), checked 5 Oct 2026
- Find and exclude vendors' confidential data before the sale
- Drop consumer transaction systems to clear privacy review; the price held
- The Spirit enterprise data on sale to Google derives from about 190 million flights and touches the personal data of about 97 million passengers; after the 5 October 2026 narrowing the structured passenger systems are out and corporate email stays in, de-identified by Tonic.ai.
- Certified de-identification is the closing condition, so payment waits for it
- In a privacy-sensitive sale, structure beats a higher late price
- In re Spirit Aviation Holdings: Consumer Privacy Ombudsman supplemental report on the sale of deidentified data (conclusion) (In re Spirit Aviation Holdings, Inc., No. 25-11897-SHL (Bankr. S.D.N.Y.), Dkt. 1684 (5 October 2026))
It is shown on its own, not counted into a figure.
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