BERLIN, April 12 -- The pilots' union for Lufthansa, Europe's biggest air transport group, yesterday called for a two-day strike in Germany from tomorrow over a salary and pensions dispute.

The airline has already been hit by four strikes this year, the last one on Friday by another union.

This latest two-day action will hit flights run by the main airline Lufthansa and its subsidiaries CityLine and Eurowings, said a statement from the Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) union. It will also affect Lufthansa Cargo.

But the union said that given the situation in the Middle East, flights to certain destinations - Azerbaijan, Egypt, Bahrain, Iraq, Israel, Yemen, Jordan, Qatar, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates - would not be a...