If you are interested in NorCal, i bet they bring you on sooner. A lot of the new hires are being assigned NorCal but most of them want SoCal. So if you have interest in coming to SA and want to actually live in NorCal, that'd be a big selling point for you to the company.
The other thing to consider is that we just got our last new plane of the year and won't get another new plane till January, so because of that gap in deliveries from Pilatus, hiring has also slowed down. I'd bet as the new year approaches that hiring will start to pick back up again.