diff --git a/parquet/Cargo.toml b/parquet/Cargo.toml
index 52f90fb3e1d..3cad64cf8ca 100644
--- a/parquet/Cargo.toml
+++ b/parquet/Cargo.toml
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ serde_json = { version = "1.0", features = ["preserve_order"] }
 arrow = { path = "../arrow", version = "9.1.0", default-features = false, features = ["test_utils", "prettyprint"] }
 
 [features]
-default = ["arrow", "snap", "brotli", "flate2", "lz4", "zstd", "base64", "async"]
+default = ["arrow", "snap", "brotli", "flate2", "lz4", "zstd", "base64"]
 cli = ["serde_json", "base64", "clap"]
 test_common = []
 # Experimental, unstable functionality primarily used for testing