I am in the same boat, waiting to book my Stage 1. I presume with the extension of this delay for new applicants that it could be sometime yet during next year so i've been looking at other possibilities in the aviation industry. I recently applied for 2 jobs working with easyJet in their operations control centre department at Hangar 89. They seem to have quite a lot of jobs going at the moment and keep adding daily!
I emailed them today and the next wave isn't until new year now.