diff --git a/airflow/contrib/hooks/bigquery_hook.py b/airflow/contrib/hooks/bigquery_hook.py
index 07a2ab8bec233c..e99aa73bdb2d21 100644
--- a/airflow/contrib/hooks/bigquery_hook.py
+++ b/airflow/contrib/hooks/bigquery_hook.py
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ def insert_rows(self, table, rows, target_fields=None, commit_every=1000, **kwar
         """
         raise NotImplementedError()
 
-    def get_pandas_df(self, sql, parameters=None, dialect=None):
+    def get_pandas_df(self, sql, parameters=None, dialect=None, **kwargs):
         """
         Returns a Pandas DataFrame for the results produced by a BigQuery
         query. The DbApiHook method must be overridden because Pandas
@@ -110,6 +110,8 @@ def get_pandas_df(self, sql, parameters=None, dialect=None):
         :param dialect: Dialect of BigQuery SQL – legacy SQL or standard SQL
             defaults to use `self.use_legacy_sql` if not specified
         :type dialect: str in {'legacy', 'standard'}
+        :param kwargs: (optional) passed into pandas_gbq.read_gbq method
+        :type kwargs: dict
         """
         private_key = self._get_field('key_path', None) or self._get_field('keyfile_dict', None)
 
@@ -120,7 +122,8 @@ def get_pandas_df(self, sql, parameters=None, dialect=None):
                         project_id=self._get_field('project'),
                         dialect=dialect,
                         verbose=False,
-                        private_key=private_key)
+                        private_key=private_key,
+                        **kwargs)
 
     def table_exists(self, project_id, dataset_id, table_id):
         """
diff --git a/airflow/hooks/dbapi_hook.py b/airflow/hooks/dbapi_hook.py
index ac5488122c39f2..76f4f0ad63bbf2 100644
--- a/airflow/hooks/dbapi_hook.py
+++ b/airflow/hooks/dbapi_hook.py
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ def get_sqlalchemy_engine(self, engine_kwargs=None):
             engine_kwargs = {}
         return create_engine(self.get_uri(), **engine_kwargs)
 
-    def get_pandas_df(self, sql, parameters=None):
+    def get_pandas_df(self, sql, parameters=None, **kwargs):
         """
         Executes the sql and returns a pandas dataframe
 
@@ -90,14 +90,16 @@ def get_pandas_df(self, sql, parameters=None):
             sql statements to execute
         :type sql: str or list
         :param parameters: The parameters to render the SQL query with.
-        :type parameters: mapping or iterable
+        :type parameters: dict or iterable
+        :param kwargs: (optional) passed into pandas.io.sql.read_sql method
+        :type kwargs: dict
         """
         if sys.version_info[0] < 3:
             sql = sql.encode('utf-8')
         import pandas.io.sql as psql
 
         with closing(self.get_conn()) as conn:
-            return psql.read_sql(sql, con=conn, params=parameters)
+            return psql.read_sql(sql, con=conn, params=parameters, **kwargs)
 
     def get_records(self, sql, parameters=None):
         """
diff --git a/airflow/hooks/hive_hooks.py b/airflow/hooks/hive_hooks.py
index e521d7bdc6ede7..48def1164c15a7 100644
--- a/airflow/hooks/hive_hooks.py
+++ b/airflow/hooks/hive_hooks.py
@@ -983,7 +983,7 @@ def get_records(self, hql, schema='default'):
         """
         return self.get_results(hql, schema=schema)['data']
 
-    def get_pandas_df(self, hql, schema='default'):
+    def get_pandas_df(self, hql, schema='default', **kwargs):
         """
         Get a pandas dataframe from a Hive query
 
@@ -991,6 +991,8 @@ def get_pandas_df(self, hql, schema='default'):
         :type hql: str or list
         :param schema: target schema, default to 'default'.
         :type schema: str
+        :param kwargs: (optional) passed into pandas.DataFrame constructor
+        :type kwargs: dict
         :return: result of hql execution
         :rtype: DataFrame
 
@@ -1004,6 +1006,6 @@ def get_pandas_df(self, hql, schema='default'):
         """
         import pandas as pd
         res = self.get_results(hql, schema=schema)
-        df = pd.DataFrame(res['data'])
+        df = pd.DataFrame(res['data'], **kwargs)
         df.columns = [c[0] for c in res['header']]
         return df
diff --git a/airflow/hooks/presto_hook.py b/airflow/hooks/presto_hook.py
index 9788411b97d7ad..7d700aba8217bf 100644
--- a/airflow/hooks/presto_hook.py
+++ b/airflow/hooks/presto_hook.py
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ def get_first(self, hql, parameters=None):
         except DatabaseError as e:
             raise PrestoException(self._get_pretty_exception_message(e))
 
-    def get_pandas_df(self, hql, parameters=None):
+    def get_pandas_df(self, hql, parameters=None, **kwargs):
         """
         Get a pandas dataframe from a sql query.
         """
@@ -118,10 +118,10 @@ def get_pandas_df(self, hql, parameters=None):
             raise PrestoException(self._get_pretty_exception_message(e))
         column_descriptions = cursor.description
         if data:
-            df = pandas.DataFrame(data)
+            df = pandas.DataFrame(data, **kwargs)
             df.columns = [c[0] for c in column_descriptions]
         else:
-            df = pandas.DataFrame()
+            df = pandas.DataFrame(**kwargs)
         return df
 
     def run(self, hql, parameters=None):