After Spirit Airlines shut down, a viral campaign called “Let’s Buy Spirit” emerged to use public crowdfunding to revive the carrier. Created by Hunter Peterson, it attracted more than 247,000 pledges totaling $214 million, reflecting frustrations over costly, unreliable air travel. The plan is to build a community-owned airline, borrowing inspiration from the Green Bay Packers model.
After Spirit Airlines’ abrupt weekend collapse, a TikToker created a quick crowdfunding-style website to rally pledges to buy the airline. He called it a “janky” one-hour build, yet by Sunday 36,000 “founding patrons” had pledged nearly $23 million—overwhelming his servers in the process.
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