diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 86ea443f0e42a09cf5bd7d232be99c90a161f076..e2f727af3f4102c8d617cc6f89526b3d88fb44fc 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -385,9 +385,6 @@ nightly:python3:stretch:
   only:
     - schedules
     - web
-  # FIXME: there is currently an intermittant LALBurst test failure when
-  # building with python3, temporarily allow this to fail
-  allow_failure: true
 
 nightly:macos:highsierra:
   tags: