Spirit Airlines Wants to Sell Its Data to Google. Former Flight Attendants Are Freaked Out
Spirit Airlines may have declared bankruptcy this spring, but the budget airline is still worth something—to AI giants, at least. In mid-August, Google won a $10 million bid to purchase some 34 years of the airline’s data, from invoices and flight operations information to Wi-Fi sales, employee records, and crew pairings.
In a statement, a Google spokesperson said the data “can be helpful in improving our products and AI models.” The sale would not include customer data, and Google “will not receive any personal information from this dataset,” the spokesperson said. The winning offer, chosen over a competing $7.5 million proposal from AI data and training company Mercor, has to be approved by a judge.
If former Spirit Airlinesattendants have their way, that won’t happen easily. Just days after the court announced Google’s winning bid, the labor union representing 5,500 former Spirit Airlines flight attendants filed an objection...
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