# micro1 Spirit Airlines: the $12.5M offer explained > micro1 Spirit Airlines: micro1 filed to outbid Google's $10M for the airline's data archive and reportedly offered $12.5M. Dated facts, deal still open. By Matt Burns, Vaultfish. Canonical: https://vaultfish.com/answers/micro1-spirit-airlines Published: 2026-10-04 Updated: 2026-10-14 ## The short answer micro1 Spirit Airlines offer was $12.5 million to Google's $10 million in a bankruptcy auction. micro1 filed to bid in September 2026, but no deal is approved. The court's ombudsman asked to research whether micro1 should de-identify the data itself instead of using an independent party. This page covers [micro1](/buyers/micro1)'s slice of the case. The [Spirit Airlines data sale page](/answers/spirit-airlines-data-sale) has the whole timeline. ## What did micro1 offer? Spirit Aviation Holdings filed for chapter 11 in the Southern District of New York on 29 Aug 2025. The [ombudsman's filing](https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysb.331039/gov.uscourts.nysb.331039.1684.0.pdf) records that micro1 filed a notice of intent to submit a competing and superior bid on 3 Sep 2026 (Doc. 1556). [Fortune](https://fortune.com/2026/09/14/micro1-tries-to-beat-googles-bid-to-buy-bankrupt-spirit-airlines-data-for-12-5-million-highlighting-value-of-data-to-ai-companies/) put the figure at $12.5 million against Google's $10 million. ## What is a trajectory, and why did labs pay? Fortune explains that an AI agent has to learn how to choose actions, use tools and respond to intermediate results. The record of those steps is a trajectory, and a finished document can't give you one. Spirit's archive holds about 100 million emails, 500 million Microsoft Teams messages and around 30 million lines of code ([Time](https://time.com/article/2026/08/25/google-spirit-airlines-ai-data-RL/)). My [RL environment page](/answers/what-is-an-rl-environment) shows where records like that get used. ## What did the ombudsman say about micro1? The Spirit Airlines ombudsman is a court appointee. She wrote that the debtors built the auction process around an independent expert doing the de-identification, and micro1 proposed to do it itself. If the court considers micro1 as the successful bidder, she asked for the chance to research its proposal and whether micro1 is qualified to take the archive ([Doc 1684](https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysb.331039/gov.uscourts.nysb.331039.1684.0.pdf)). ## Is the sale final? No. Fortune reported that no sale had court approval, and I found no sale order. Check the docket before you quote any of this. ## What does it mean for a company talking to micro1? It is one filing about one bankruptcy, and a working company licenses under different terms, described in [how micro1's data partnership works](/guides/micro1-data-partnership). Still, it shows the question a court asked, which is who de-identifies the data. Ask micro1 the same question about yours, and read [how micro1 handles names](/answers/micro1-pii-transformation). Talk to a privacy or commercial lawyer in your state before you sign. micro1 may pay us a referral fee if a company we introduce goes ahead with it. [How we are paid](https://vaultfish.com/disclosure) Figure: steps Mid-Aug auction, Google top bidder -> micro1 files notice 3 Sep -> Fortune 14 Sep, ombudsman 5 Oct. micro1 entered the Spirit bidding three weeks after the auction closed, and the deal still awaited court approval. [Apply to micro1's data partnership (paid link)](https://req.micro1.ai/post/74520e8b-4673-4da5-b855-53609aaf6710?referralCode=f82e519e-5d64-4e0e-9574-760c84371cf2&utm_source=referral&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=data_referral) ยท [micro1's own data-partnerships page](https://www.micro1.ai/data-partnerships) _Paid link. [How we are paid](https://vaultfish.com/disclosure)_ _Vaultfish helps you run the process. We are not lawyers and this is not legal advice. If you need counsel who knows this area, we can point you to one._ ## Sources - [ombudsman's filing](https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysb.331039/gov.uscourts.nysb.331039.1684.0.pdf) - [Fortune](https://fortune.com/2026/09/14/micro1-tries-to-beat-googles-bid-to-buy-bankrupt-spirit-airlines-data-for-12-5-million-highlighting-value-of-data-to-ai-companies/) - [Time](https://time.com/article/2026/08/25/google-spirit-airlines-ai-data-RL/) - [micro1 data partnerships](https://www.micro1.ai/data-partnerships) - [micro1 company referral](https://www.micro1.ai/company-referral) - [micro1 referral terms](https://www.micro1.ai/legal/referral-terms)