Originally posted by Machka
But you do have to be careful with the really big boxes. I got one from United Airlines when I flew from Sydney, NSW to Los Angeles, CA which was huge. I pretty much just rolled my bicycle in. But the box was really too big, and very difficult to transport around the airport ... and then kind of collapsed in the middle and developed a hole. Nothing too bad happened (broke an expensive light), but by the time I collected the box in LA and then transferred it to a flight to Calgary and collected it there, the box was really hard to handle because it was well on its way to disintegrating.