diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index d72682fa..5d06f984 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -11,23 +11,11 @@ env:
   # different connection classes to test
   - TEST_ES_CONNECTION=Urllib3HttpConnection
   - TEST_ES_CONNECTION=RequestsHttpConnection
-  - TEST_ES_CONNECTION=ThriftConnection
-
-matrix:
-  exclude:
-    # skip testing thrift on py3 and pypy
-    - python: "pypy"
-      env: TEST_ES_CONNECTION=ThriftConnection
-    - python: "3.2"
-      env: TEST_ES_CONNECTION=ThriftConnection
-    - python: "3.3"
-      env: TEST_ES_CONNECTION=ThriftConnection
 
 install:
   - mkdir /tmp/elasticsearch
   - wget -O - http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/build.elasticsearch.org/origin/master/nightly/JDK6/elasticsearch-latest-SNAPSHOT.tar.gz | tar xz --directory=/tmp/elasticsearch --strip-components=1
   - /tmp/elasticsearch/bin/plugin -install elasticsearch/elasticsearch-transport-memcached/2.0.0.RC1
-  - /tmp/elasticsearch/bin/plugin -install elasticsearch/elasticsearch-transport-thrift/2.0.0-SNAPSHOT
   - git clone https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.git ../elasticsearch
   - pip install coveralls
   - pip install .