The airline travel nightmare affected Alec Baldwin. The chaos began over the weekend when storms began pounding the northeast and parts of the Midwest, causing mass delays and cancellations into and out of New York area airports. United Airlines alone has canceled more than 2,000 flights since Sunday, prompting a message from the company's CEO, John Kirby, that placed most of the blame on FAA staffing shortages. A victim of the travel delays is Alec Baldwin, who posted to his Instagram several times Tuesday from his seat on a delayed plane out of Newark. “6 and 1/2 hours on a plane, sitting at the gate, waiting to fly NEWARK to VANCOUVER. No end in sight,” he wrote, adding the hashtag “How Will Global Warming Effect [sic] Air Travel?” He followed up an hour later, with another selfie from the runway, writing: “Why are US airlines so sh***y? Sitting here for 7 and 1/2 hours.”