Google has agreed to pay $10 million for Spirit Airlines' corporate data after winning a bankruptcy auction, seeking a de-identified archive to improve products and train AI models. A U.S. bankruptcy court delayed the approval hearing to Sept. 9 from Wednesday after the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, which represents Spirit cabin crew, objected and sought restrictions on the sale of employee data and added protections for workers. Spirit has said the records would contain no customer information or personally identifiable information, but the union argued that because links across datasets would be preserved, information about individuals or small groups could potentially be reconstructed. The records for sale include employee emails, Microsoft Teams messages, spreadsheets, calendars, and marketing, productivity and operations data. Spirit shut down in May and is selling assets in bankruptcy after struggling with high debt and high fuel costs.