Three employees of crew members, including two airhostesses were suspended by the Air India, after they allegedly allowed one of the company's employee to sleep on the floor of a flight from the US.

A senior Air India official said that, "We have grounded all three crew members, pending enquiry, after it was brought to our notice that they allowed the company employee to sleep on the floor."

"In this case the aircraft had full load but the staffer managed to board the flight by telling them that he would not mind travelling on the jump seat, which are meant for crew rest," the official said.

"This (issue) is more to do with the Flight Standard Directorate. These are low-level violations more to do with the discipline, wherein they permitted first of all a person to travel on jump seat and then let him sleep on the floor, which is really bad," the official added.

- Nandini