AAL: Institutional Flow BULLISHAmerican Airlines Group Inc.NASDAQ:AALDarkFlowSignalsChart: American Airlines at the $15 strike on the daily. The idea ran to a double then faded, and the honest driver of the fade is sitting right on the crude chart. The setup: DarkFlow flagged institutional call flow in American Airlines on June 16, positioned at the $15 line into late August. The read was a travel-demand and consumer-resilience trade on a low-dollar, high-torque airline name, with the flow footprint building on a chart that had cleared room to run. Airlines carry big operating leverage, so a modest move in the stock can multiply the option, which is what made the setup attractive. Trade structure: the vehicle was the AAL $15 call dated August 21, flagged near $1.94. Single leg, no spread. Same floor as every signal: if it trades to half of entry, it stops there. Rode to expiry, or stopped at half. What played out: the contract ran to a peak around +110%, a genuine double at its best, and now sits near -49% off that high. The reason is not a mystery: fuel is an airline's largest variable cost, and crude spent this month climbing to fresh one-month highs on the Strait of Hormuz risk premium. Rising oil is a direct headwind to airline margins, and the option gave back the double as that risk built. It has not yet hit the half-of-entry stop and still has time on the calendar into August 21. What would invalidate: a sustained oil spike keeps the pressure on and puts the stop in play. A cooling of the crude move, plus the stock reclaiming its earlier range, is what the bullish case needs to get back on track before August 21. DarkFlow reads fresh institutional flow off the live tape, weighs it against the chart and macro, and tracks every signal, entry, peak, current, and final close, on a free public page at darkflowsignals.com. Not financial advice.