Spirit Airlines is a U.S. low-fare carrier now operated by Spirit Aviation Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation headquartered in Dania Beach, Florida, which emerged from its 2024 Chapter 11 Cases on March 12, 2025 and subsequently commenced a further 2025 Chapter 11 restructuring disclosed in its own FY2025 Form 10-K. Spirit's Privacy Policy (Last Updated January 14, 2026) discloses collection of sensitive information including Social Security number, passport number, precise geolocation, and — via a vendor at self-serve bag drop kiosks — biometric face-scan data, and states the company does not currently recognize Do Not Track browser signals and participates in cookie-based, cross-context behavioral advertising. The same policy states Spirit does not "sell" personal information for money but discloses categories of identifiers (name, address, passport number) to third-party recipients including data brokers, advertising networks, and internet service providers for business purposes. Spirit's FY2025 10-K Legal Proceedings section discloses IRS excise-tax and TSA security-fee disputes but no privacy-specific enforcement action, breach, or litigation; no independent audit or privacy incident was found in primary sources within scope. Spirit's live website (spirit.com) serves its privacy policy and App Store listing as client-rendered JavaScript shells inaccessible to a non-browser fetch, and a Wayback Machine snapshot of the policy page was itself blocked by the site's bot-detection vendor (PerimeterX), so those two candidate sources could not be cited; a static PDF copy of the current policy hosted on Spirit's own content CDN was used instead.
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Spirit's Privacy Policy states that, for its stated purposes, the company collects sensitive personal information including Social Security number, passport number, other state or federal identification, account log-in credentials, credit/debit card information, and precise geolocation, and separately states it may collect biometric (face-scan) information via a vendor when a customer chooses the biometric option at a self-serve bag drop kiosk, framed as a consent-based collection.
Spirit's FY2025 Form 10-K identifies the registrant as Spirit Aviation Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (IRS Employer ID 33-3711797) headquartered in Dania Beach, Florida, reporting 28,320,815 shares of common stock outstanding as of March 4, 2026, and states the company emerged from its 2024 Chapter 11 Cases on March 12, 2025 (the "Emergence Date"), becoming the successor registrant to the former Spirit Airlines, Inc.
Spirit's Privacy Policy states the company does not "sell" personal information for money and does not sell or share sensitive personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising, but its Details of Processing Activities table discloses that ordinary identifiers (name, address, phone number, email, passport number) are disclosed to business-purpose recipients that include affiliates, business partners, data analytics providers, data brokers, internet service providers, joint marketing partners, and advertising networks.
Spirit's FY2025 Form 10-K Legal Proceedings section discloses an ongoing IRS excise-tax assessment dispute (originally $34.9 million, reduced to $27.5 million) and a February 2026 preliminary $23.9 million TSA security-fee assessment that Spirit is disputing before the Eleventh Circuit, but discloses no data breach, privacy-related litigation, or privacy regulator enforcement action anywhere in the filing.
Spirit's Cookie Policy section states the company allows certain third-party companies to serve ads and/or collect information via cookies when visitors use its website for cross-site advertising purposes, and states elsewhere that Spirit does not currently recognize automated Do Not Track browser signals.