Good that there's a choice, that's how the pay increase will kick in: LCC loses too many pilots, increase pay, pilots stay. EK needs drivers for their 200 shiny tubes, increase more pay.. And LCC... Goes on and on.
On the other hand, LCC and regional carriers in SEA probably won't give a cxxb since pilot training cost is never looked at nor frowned upon. So they'll continue to come out with schemes (P2F being their model choice) that get the young chaps to invest the best 10years of their lives, and the vicious cycles just keep going and if EK gets its act right, most LCCs will just turn out to be EFTA.
By the sound of it, EK should get their numbers from SEA then.
(EFTA: Emirates Flight Training Academy)