EgyptAir resumed its flights to Istanbul on Wednesday after air traffic in the city was shut down for less than one day following the bombing that killed 36 people and injured 150 at Istanbul's Ataturk Airport.

On Tuesday, Egypt's national carrier said that it had cancelled flights MS 737 and MS 735 that were scheduled to fly from Cairo to Istanbul at 9:50am and 2:20pm Cairo local time.

Flight MS 735 took off at 2:30pm with a larger capacity of seats so as to accommodate passengers scheduled to board the canceled flight MS 737.

Turkish Airlines suspended its flights until 8am (0500 GMT) on Wednesday and said bookings on flights to or from Ataturk Airport between 28 June and 5 July would be rescheduled or refunded.