Google to buy Spirit Airlines business data for $10M

symisc_devel 36 points 3 comments August 17, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (3 comments)

Taikhoom10

Genuinely interesting from a strategy perspective to see what went wrong. https://s-1.vercel.app/

ChrisArchitect

Mercor was also in the running but got outbid at $7M but wanted the data raw/unanonymized.

ChrisArchitect

In related airline/Google AI data business, just last week: Ryanair and Google Cloud Announce Five-Year Data and AI Partnership https://www.googlecloudpresscorner.com/2026-08-12-Ryanair-an...

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