Editing Qantas (section)

===Jet age===
[[File:Boeing 707 - Qantas (17342297349).jpg|thumb|Qantas Boeing 707, Heathrow Airport, London, 1969]]

In June 1959, Qantas entered the jet age when the first [[Boeing 707|Boeing 707–138]] was delivered.<ref name="BG77">{{Cite book|last=Wilson|first=Stewart|title=Boeing 707 Douglas DC-8 & Vickers VC10|publisher=Aerospace Publications|year=1998|location=ACT, Australia|page=185|isbn=1-875671-36-6}}</ref> On 14 September 1992, Qantas merged with nationally owned domestic airline, [[Trans Australia Airlines|Australian Airlines]], renamed from Trans-Australia Airlines in 1986.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=World airline directory – Qantas Airways|magazine=[[Flight International]]|issn=0015-3710|volume=143|number=4362|date=24–30 March 1993|page=117|url=http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1993/1993%20-%200640.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105180417/http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1993/1993%20-%200640.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=5 November 2012}}</ref> Australian Airlines's aircraft started to be rebranded as Qantas aircraft in 1993. Qantas was gradually privatised between 1993 and 1997.<ref>The Hon R. Willis, Answer to a Question without Notice, House of Representatives Debates, 13 May 1993, p.775.</ref><ref>Commonwealth of Australia Budget Statements 1996–97, Budget Paper no. 3, p. 3-191.</ref><ref>Ian Thomas, '"Luck" played a key part in float success', Australian Financial Review, 31 July 1995.</ref>