Originally Posted by
Inpd
and ... what happened? Did they charge you a fee? Or you inherently saying if you had said it was a "bicycle" not "bicycle parts" you would have been charge the fee despite it fitting in regulation-compliant boxes.
They did not charge me a fee.
In fact, I was flying Southwest (continental US) and they allow two regulation-bags even on my cheapo-discount-ticket, so no bag fees. I have no idea whether I would have had to pay a bicycle fee if I said "bicycle", but I'd read that online somewhere (probably here on BikeForums) so I said "bicycle parts".