What's in Spirit Airlines' data archive

The filing also lists 17,082,644 OneDrive items and 20,577,677 SharePoint items. Press figures differ slightly: MIT Technology Review rounds the employee records to 176,000.

Spread over 80,000 mailboxes, 100M emails comes to roughly 1,250 each. That figure is our own calculation, and real mailboxes vary a lot: managers and schedulers send far more than seasonal workers.

On 2026-09-09 Google dropped passenger name records, transaction data, refunds, onboard and inflight sales, timecards and WiFi revenue from the deal, and its price stayed at $10.0M.

Those sets were the customer and payroll material. Because the price stayed put, the value seems to sit in the messages and documents. Several parties pushed for further cuts: flight attendants asked to be left out, International Aero Engines argued its confidential files belong to it and not the estate, and the pilots' union warned that safety-program records could identify individual pilots.

Passenger lists hold little appeal for AI buyers. What they pay for is the record of how work moves: requests, escalations, decisions. The buyers' published wish lists confirm it: process documents, project history, email, chat and CRM activity.

For Spirit, the de-identification method weighed about as heavily as the dollar figure. The ombudsman's support depends on Tonic.ai signing off on the removal of personal data ahead of every handover. See de-identification in data sales.

Most companies hold a tiny share of what Spirit had, and prices reflect that: through SimpleClosure, wind-down data sales typically fetch $10K to $100K. The software is the same, though: Slack or Teams, Google Workspace or Microsoft 365, Jira and a CRM.

To estimate your range, try what your data is worth. To see what sells for closed companies, read what dead-company data sells for.