diff --git a/plugin/trino-cassandra/pom.xml b/plugin/trino-cassandra/pom.xml
index 5da45d4abc3c..5aa4d6099a68 100644
--- a/plugin/trino-cassandra/pom.xml
+++ b/plugin/trino-cassandra/pom.xml
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@
     <properties>
         <air.main.basedir>${project.parent.basedir}</air.main.basedir>
         <dep.native-protocol.version>1.5.1</dep.native-protocol.version>
-        <air.test.parallel>instances</air.test.parallel>
     </properties>
 
     <dependencies>
diff --git a/plugin/trino-elasticsearch/pom.xml b/plugin/trino-elasticsearch/pom.xml
index 0ad20c8aaeca..c742a69a3f33 100644
--- a/plugin/trino-elasticsearch/pom.xml
+++ b/plugin/trino-elasticsearch/pom.xml
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@
     <properties>
         <air.main.basedir>${project.parent.basedir}</air.main.basedir>
         <dep.elasticsearch.version>6.8.23</dep.elasticsearch.version>
-        <air.test.parallel>instances</air.test.parallel>
     </properties>
 
     <dependencies>
diff --git a/plugin/trino-pinot/pom.xml b/plugin/trino-pinot/pom.xml
index 7ba6ff80a783..f530198220fb 100755
--- a/plugin/trino-pinot/pom.xml
+++ b/plugin/trino-pinot/pom.xml
@@ -15,13 +15,6 @@
     <properties>
         <air.main.basedir>${project.parent.basedir}</air.main.basedir>
         <dep.pinot.version>0.12.1</dep.pinot.version>
-        <!--
-           Project's default for air.test.parallel is 'methods'. By design, 'instances' makes TestNG run tests from one class in a single thread.
-           As a side effect, it prevents TestNG from initializing multiple test instances upfront, which happens with 'methods'.
-           A potential downside can be long tail single-threaded execution of a single long test class.
-           TODO (https://github.com/trinodb/trino/issues/11294) remove when we upgrade to surefire with https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1967
-           -->
-        <air.test.parallel>instances</air.test.parallel>
     </properties>
 
     <dependencyManagement>
diff --git a/plugin/trino-sqlserver/pom.xml b/plugin/trino-sqlserver/pom.xml
index 1117e536dfce..441ee718262a 100644
--- a/plugin/trino-sqlserver/pom.xml
+++ b/plugin/trino-sqlserver/pom.xml
@@ -15,15 +15,6 @@
 
     <properties>
         <air.main.basedir>${project.parent.basedir}</air.main.basedir>
-
-        <!--
-          Project's default for air.test.parallel is 'methods'. By design, 'instances' runs all the methods in the same instance in the same thread,
-          but two methods on two different instances will be running in different threads.
-          As a side effect, it prevents TestNG from initializing multiple test instances upfront, which happens with 'methods'.
-          A potential downside can be long tail single-threaded execution of a single long test class.
-          TODO (https://github.com/trinodb/trino/issues/11294) remove when we upgrade to surefire with https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1967
-          -->
-        <air.test.parallel>instances</air.test.parallel>
     </properties>
 
     <dependencies>