September 16 came and went without anyone setting foot in a courtroom. Judge Lane cancelled the entire session — every matter on the calendar that day had already been pushed somewhere else before it arrived. Here’s where things actually landed.
Both Court Dates Got Pushed Back to Next Week
On September 15, the Debtors filed a notice cancelling the September 16 hearing outright (Dkt. No. 1609):
“All matters originally scheduled to be heard at the September 16, 2026, hearing have been adjourned (see notices of adjournment filed at ECF Nos. 1600, 1601 and 1608)... the September 16, 2026, hearing has been cancelled.”
Two of those three adjournments are threads we’ve been following closely.
The data sale. Doc. 1601 (filed 9/11) pushes the Deidentified Data sale hearing — Google vs. micro1, with the CPO’s report and Google’s pushback from last issue — to September 30, 11:00 a.m. Reply deadline: September 28.
The DIP Carve-Out (B) fight. Doc. 1608 (filed 9/15) pushes the hearing on enforcing that $58 million severance carve-out from last issue to... September 30, 11:00 a.m. Same day. Same time.
Two unrelated contested matters, stacked on one morning, in front of the same judge. Neither notice explains why they landed on the same slot, and we’re not going to guess. But if you’re trying to follow both threads, you now only need to mark one date.
More Vendors Are Lining Up Against the Data Sale
On September 14, Navitaire Limited and Amadeus SAS — the reservations and revenue-accounting software Spirit has run on for 19 years — filed their own objection and joinder (Dkt. No. 1602). They’re not objecting to the sale generally; they’re objecting to the extent it could sweep in their own confidential system data and software terms, and they’ve cross-moved to enforce their existing confidentiality agreements with Spirit directly.
That’s now two employee unions and four separate vendors on record objecting to some piece of this sale — AFA and IAM/TWU on the labor side; Springshot, IAE, Navitaire, and Amadeus on the vendor side. The data sale isn’t just a privacy fight anymore. It’s a fight over what’s actually inside a 100-million-email archive that nobody involved seems fully sure of.
Also this week: The 27-aircraft EETC auction got adjourned for the second time (Dkt. No. 1600) — auction now September 18, sale hearing now September 23. Expedia, Inc. entered a notice of appearance in the case (Dkt. No. 1616) for the first time; we don’t know why yet, but we’re watching it. And Lucy Thomson, the Consumer Privacy Ombudsman, was finally granted her own pro hac vice admission (Dkt. No. 1612) — the order we went looking for last issue and couldn’t find.
Nothing got decided this week. Everything just got a new date. September 30 is the one that matters most.
Upcoming Court Dates
September 23, 2026 — Aircraft/EETC Sale Hearing at 2:00 p.m. (second adjournment of the 27-plane auction); also the objection deadline (4:00 p.m.) for the Lufthansa Technik settlement and its sealing motion.
September 30, 2026, 11:00 a.m. — Deidentified Data Sale hearing and the DIP Carve-Out (B) enforcement hearing, same morning, before Judge Sean H. Lane. Reply deadline: September 28, 12:00 p.m.
October 14, 2026 — next monthly omnibus hearing.
December 24, 2026 / February 19, 2027 — Exclusive Filing / Exclusive Solicitation Period deadlines for the Debtors’ Chapter 11 Plan. Yes, those two dates really do straddle into next year.
— The Unpaid Employee | spiritdidnotpayme.com