{"id":89936,"date":"2026-05-04T02:27:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T02:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/well-take-it-a-tiktoker-rallies-pledges-to-buy-spirit-airlines-after-its-abrupt-weekend-collapse\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T02:27:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T02:27:58","slug":"well-take-it-a-tiktoker-rallies-pledges-to-buy-spirit-airlines-after-its-abrupt-weekend-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/well-take-it-a-tiktoker-rallies-pledges-to-buy-spirit-airlines-after-its-abrupt-weekend-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;ll take it: a TikToker rallies pledges to buy Spirit Airlines after its abrupt weekend collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Spirit Airlines shut down overnight Saturday \u2014 canceling all flights, letting go of 17,000 employees, and telling ticketholders to just <em>not come to the airport<\/em> \u2014 people were flabbergasted but also bereft. For all its indignities, Spirit was cheap. Then one of them had an idea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hunter Peterson, a voice actor with frequent flyer grievances, posted a TikTok asking: what if 20% of American adults chipped in the price of a Spirit fare and just . . . bought it? He called it \u201cSpirit 2.0: Owned by the People.\u201d Within hours he\u2019d thrown up a website \u2014 a janky, one-hour job, by his own admission \u2014 and by Sunday, 36,000 \u201cfounding patrons\u201d had pledged nearly $23 million, crashing his servers in the process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">None of it is real money. These are non-binding pledges. Also worth noting: the actual cost of acquiring and relaunching an airline runs into the billions. Peterson knows this. In a video posted earlier today, he winkingly tried recruiting aviation lawyers, PR people, and lawyers with a one-word ask: \u201cHelp?\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI know what I don\u2019t know,\u201d he told his followers, but \u201cyou\u2019re committing to this bit, so I\u2019m committing to this bit.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Spirit Airlines shut down overnight Saturday \u2014 canceling all flights, letting go of 17,000 employees, and telling ticketholders to just not come to the airport \u2014 people were flabbergasted but also bereft. For all its indignities, Spirit was cheap. Then one of them had an idea. 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