"People are acting like this is a major issue" and "This is actually a major issue that they are behaving proportionately to" are, unfortunately, not the same thing.

Not to downplay that trafficking is happening! And it certainly depends on what you mean by 'trafficking'. But the classic idea of someone being forced into bondage, while it does happen, is still quite unlikely to look like what people are taught to 'keep an eye out for' that might catch LW. We're in the middle of a bit of a moral panic about human trafficking that's making dealing with actual traffickers harder.

(In fact the biggest story I was seeing about flight attendants being trained involved a case where they tried to separate mother and daughter because the daughter was mixed-race and the mother wasn't.)