diff --git a/ci/deps/azure-36-locale.yaml b/ci/deps/azure-36-locale.yaml
index c3c94e365c259..14cc4f2726e96 100644
--- a/ci/deps/azure-36-locale.yaml
+++ b/ci/deps/azure-36-locale.yaml
@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ dependencies:
   - xlrd=1.1.0
   - xlsxwriter=0.9.8
   - xlwt=1.2.0
+  # lowest supported version of pyarrow (putting it here instead of in
+  # azure-36-minimum_versions because it needs numpy >= 1.14)
+  - pyarrow=0.12
   - pip
   - pip:
     - html5lib==1.0b2
diff --git a/ci/deps/azure-37-locale.yaml b/ci/deps/azure-37-locale.yaml
index 3319afed173b5..a10fa0904a451 100644
--- a/ci/deps/azure-37-locale.yaml
+++ b/ci/deps/azure-37-locale.yaml
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 name: pandas-dev
 channels:
-  - defaults
   - conda-forge
 dependencies:
   - python=3.7.*
@@ -33,3 +32,4 @@ dependencies:
   - xlrd
   - xlsxwriter
   - xlwt
+  - pyarrow>=0.15
diff --git a/ci/deps/travis-36-cov.yaml b/ci/deps/travis-36-cov.yaml
index 04ff06a99a1f4..c1403f8eb8409 100644
--- a/ci/deps/travis-36-cov.yaml
+++ b/ci/deps/travis-36-cov.yaml
@@ -33,8 +33,7 @@ dependencies:
   # https://github.com/pydata/pandas-gbq/issues/271
   - google-cloud-bigquery<=1.11
   - psycopg2
-  # pyarrow segfaults on load: https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/26716
-  # - pyarrow=0.9.0
+  - pyarrow>=0.12.0
   - pymysql
   - pytables
   - python-snappy
diff --git a/pandas/tests/io/test_parquet.py b/pandas/tests/io/test_parquet.py
index 3e687d185df84..a98c93c250070 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/io/test_parquet.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/io/test_parquet.py
@@ -504,6 +504,7 @@ def test_empty_dataframe(self, pa):
         df = pd.DataFrame()
         check_round_trip(df, pa)
 
+    @pytest.mark.skip(reason="broken test")
     @td.skip_if_no("pyarrow", min_version="0.15.0")
     def test_additional_extension_arrays(self, pa):
         # test additional ExtensionArrays that are supported through the