Its confirmed... Aer Lingus are back on the Liverpool route in October.. along with some other new route openings;
Snippet from their website;
Aer Lingus today announced the introduction of four new routes from Dublin to Europe in its winter schedule this year. This expansion brings to seventeen the number of new routes introduced in 2004, and supports the airline's growing European operation to and from Ireland.
Services to Liverpool, Las Palmas, Lanzarote and Budapest will start at the end of October 2004.
The airline will operate a daily service to Liverpool, while flights to Budapest will operate four days a week - on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. A weekly service on Saturdays will operate to and from Lanzarote and Las Palmas.