diff --git a/includes/alerts/transport.api.php b/includes/alerts/transport.api.php
index 656767354..33089b464 100644
--- a/includes/alerts/transport.api.php
+++ b/includes/alerts/transport.api.php
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-<?php
-
 /* Copyright (C) 2014 Daniel Preussker <f0o@devilcode.org>
  * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
  * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
diff --git a/includes/alerts/transport.hipchat.php b/includes/alerts/transport.hipchat.php
index df0f12b2a..4787458cf 100644
--- a/includes/alerts/transport.hipchat.php
+++ b/includes/alerts/transport.hipchat.php
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-<?php
-
 /* Copyright (C) 2014 Daniel Preussker <f0o@devilcode.org>, Tyler Christiansen <code@tylerc.me>
  * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
  * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
diff --git a/includes/alerts/transport.pagerduty.php b/includes/alerts/transport.pagerduty.php
index 56690c0fc..4b760df79 100644
--- a/includes/alerts/transport.pagerduty.php
+++ b/includes/alerts/transport.pagerduty.php
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-<?php
-
 /* Copyright (C) 2015 Daniel Preussker <f0o@devilcode.org>
  * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
  * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
diff --git a/includes/alerts/transport.pushover.php b/includes/alerts/transport.pushover.php
index 46605ac66..5205c14f6 100644
--- a/includes/alerts/transport.pushover.php
+++ b/includes/alerts/transport.pushover.php
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-<?php
-
 /* Copyright (C) 2015 James Campbell <neokjames@gmail.com>
  * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
  * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
diff --git a/includes/alerts/transport.slack.php b/includes/alerts/transport.slack.php
index 5f879c434..e770918e8 100644
--- a/includes/alerts/transport.slack.php
+++ b/includes/alerts/transport.slack.php
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-<?php
-
 /* Copyright (C) 2014 Daniel Preussker <f0o@devilcode.org>
  * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
  * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by