Trip Switch, here are the facts, & they are the facts, my friend as relayed to me by both the Captain & the FO who operated this particular flight.
They left MAN bound for MJV. They were notified of the fuel leak just after rotation by the tower. The FO confirmed the fuel leak, as it was spraying out of the right wing. The cabin crew were also alerted to the leak by panicking passengers seated at the rear right side of the aircraft. They continued to climb & the leak ceased at FL120. They continued to MJV without any tech stop. When asked about the implications to flight safety, with regard to his actions, the captain stated that there wasn't much of an imbalance on the fuel gauges, that the leak stopped at FL120 & he didn't want to disrupt an MJV flight as PM was often on this route!
In MJV there was no fault found so they brought the aircraft back into MAN, but this time the fuel leak ceased at FL 150!
The fact that an experienced man would take such an action just goes to show how much commercial pressure PMs dictatorship puts onto his crew. This is one of many appalling breaches of safety standards that goes through the very fibre of Jet2's operation. The truth.