I admire your attempt to be the conservative hero, coming out against the air craft passenger bill of rights, but you seem to have come to the conclusion that they and other entities are allowed to trample over us with no chance of recourse on our part. I say ‘our’ just to make this post and the points in it, the last time I flew was 12 Aug 1968.
In my opinion, buying a airline ticket is akin to entering a NYC taxi and telling the driver where you want to go, now, being I live across the river from the city and having driven all sizes of trucks around the city, I know the street/avenue layouts pretty well. They do try to cheat you via the ‘shortcut’ they know, padding the amount on the meter, unless you are savvy enough to call them on it.
If you hired a cab and he sat there and told you he could not take you to your destination, because it was raining too hard, snowing, foggy, his dispatcher wouldn’t allow him to go to that part of the city, what would you do?
Sit in the cab until the weather conditions cleared or the dispatcher changed his mind?
No, most likely you’d exit the cab and find one that would transport to where you wanted to go.
Why are the airlines any different? You could take bets that when the flying waiters and waitresses became thirsty, they had their choice of drinks to fulfill their craving, I imagine the same situation would have applied to restroom use.

I don’t want to see trial lawyers make a dime from my miserable conditions, as I can’t stand most of the b-st-rds.

I, for one can’t see the downside of having a federal law to oversee humane treatment of humans under sometimes extreme conditions. If you ran a animal shelter and did not give water and food to the animals for hours in extreme heat, you can bet you’d be appearing before a judge to answer why.

Why not get congress to get off of their collective @sses and pass a law that would allow humane treatment of people of all ages when you are held prisoner on a air craft. The law should insist a standard contract between passengers and airlines addressing these problems. And, if the airlines fail to keep up their end of the bargain, let the government fine them at extreme rates, so we can at least try to recoup some of the money we have been throwing at them in forms of subsidies.
By the way, due to health conditions, I do need low sodium food, so I can’t see why you would want to put my health in peril just because of a political position.

And for your information, I am NOT a liberal in any shape or form. I am a proud conservative.
I just want airlines and other large public serving corporations to give the people what they pay for, or let them go elsewhere to get such services.