Over the weekend, Hunter Peterson, a content creator and voice actor, posted a TikTok video that now boasts more than 4.6 million views, proposing a plan to purchase Spirit Airlines through crowdfunding.

"This is a genius idea: We nationalize Spirit Airlines," Peterson said in the video. "Owned by the people. Airlines gone. We make a new airline."

Spirit Airlines announced on May 2 it was ceasing operations, citing years of financial hardships made difficult by rising fuel prices. All Spirit flights are canceled and the airline's customer service is no longer available.

"Sustaining the business required hundreds of millions of additional dollars of liquidity that Spirit simply does not have and could not procure. This is tremendously disappointing and not the outcome any of us wanted," Spirit President and CEO Dave Davis said in a statement.

Spirit Airlines planes are parked on the tarmac at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on May 2, 2026 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Spirit Aviation Holdings Inc. announced today that it has canceled all upcoming flights and begun a wind-down of Spirit Airlines operations after failing to secure funding from the Trump administration. © Joe Raedle, Getty Images

A TikTok campaign to buy and revive Spirit Airlines, hours after the company suspended operations, has raised more than $88 million.

Over the weekend, Hunter Peterson, a content creator and voice actor, posted a TikTok video that now boasts more than 4.6 million views, proposing a plan to purchase Spirit Airlines through crowdfunding.

"This is a genius idea: We nationalize Spirit Airlines," Peterson said in the video. "Owned by the people. Airlines gone. We make a new airline."

Spirit Airlines announced on May 2 it was ceasing operations, citing years of financial hardships made difficult by rising fuel prices. All Spirit flights are canceled and the airline's customer service is no longer available.

"Sustaining the business required hundreds of millions of additional dollars of liquidity that Spirit simply does not have and could not procure. This is tremendously disappointing and not the outcome any of us wanted," Spirit President and CEO Dave Davis said in a statement.

Spirit Airlines jets sat on the tarmac as the company ceased operations at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. on May 2, 2026. US air carriers mobilized Saturday to help passengers and crew members stranded by the overnight shutdown of Spirit Airlines, after last-minute talks with creditors and the White House collapsed. The budget airline known for its bright yellow planes succumbed to crushing fuel prices and announced in the early hours of Saturday that "all flights have been canceled, and customer service is no longer available" as it "started winding down its global operations, effective immediately."

Thousands support crowdfunding plan to revive Spirit

Not three hours after posting his first video, Peterson launched what is now letsbuyspiritair.com, which allows interested patrons to pledge a share into the proposed ownership of Spirit Airlines. A non-binding pledge does not entail a collection of money but rather an expressed interest.

And it appears quite a few people are excited.