When Spirit Airlines shut down overnight Saturday — canceling all flights, letting go of 17,000 employees, and telling ticketholders to just not come to the airport — people were flabbergasted but also bereft.

For all its indignities, Spirit was cheap.

Then one of them had an idea.

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 “Spirit 2. 0: Owned by the People.

” Within hours he’d thrown up a website — a janky, one-hour job, by his own admission — and by Sunday, 36,000 “founding patrons” had pledged nearly $23 million, crashing his servers in the process.

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.

In a video posted earlier today, he winkingly tried recruiting aviation lawyers, PR people, and lawyers with a one-word ask: “Help?” “I know what I don’t know,” he told his followers, but “you’re committing to this bit, so I’m committing to this bit

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