diff --git a/doc/airline.txt b/doc/airline.txt
index ee9cae60..4b4a7f3a 100644
--- a/doc/airline.txt
+++ b/doc/airline.txt
@@ -365,6 +365,10 @@ syntastic <https://github.com/scrooloose/syntastic>
 
 * enable/disable syntastic integration >
   let g:airline#extensions#syntastic#enabled = 1
+
+  Note: The recommendation from syntastic to modify the statusline directly
+  does not apply, if you use vim-airline, since it will take care for you of
+  adjusting the statusline.
 <
 -------------------------------------                       *airline-tagbar*
 tagbar <https://github.com/majutsushi/tagbar>