HOLIDAYMAKERS boosted numbers on the Jersey Eye over Battle of Flowers week, but it has still failed to attract enough local residents to make it pay.
Edward Mellors, from the family firm which brought the 60-metre giant ferris wheel to the Island in June at a cost of £160,000, said that they were preparing themselves to make a £30,000 loss on their Jersey venture.
He said that they were disappointed and surprised at how the wheel had failed to get the same reaction from the public in the Island as it did wherever it was placed around the United Kingdom.
In view of the slower trade than expected, they had reduced the team working at the wheel from six to four.
