diff --git a/containers/airflow/base/Dockerfile b/containers/airflow/base/Dockerfile
index 7e77a803..a21eb1e7 100644
--- a/containers/airflow/base/Dockerfile
+++ b/containers/airflow/base/Dockerfile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-FROM apache/airflow:2.7.2-python3.10 as build
+FROM apache/airflow:2.8.1-python3.10 as build
 
 # Ensure that release notes get picked up from our repo and not from the apache airflow base repo
 # If the apache airflow notes are used we will incorrectly pickup the release notes from our version