Ya, it was about as good as your attempt to get relative seniority. That is how bargaining works you start low and work your way up. The fact you think you would have done better in arbitration shows how brainwashed you AT were from your MEC promising relative.

You played a poor game of brinkmanship of trying to force the company to do something it didn't want which was a drawn out arbitration that I am sure would have been contested by AT when they didn't get relative. You negotiated in bad faith and you lost. Get over it.

SWA could have just as easily spun you off and closed you down and you decided to press to test and it didn't work out the way all your MEC morons were telling you it would. Blame them for setting a completely unrealistic bar and keeping you in the dark on what could happen.