Originally Posted by
venturi95
This was my assumption for all flights domestic and international, until this summer. My bike box from Detroit Metro to Portland, OR, was definitely not opened. It was very light as there was only a 56cm road bike in there. It was opened by TSA from PDX to Omaha at RAGBRAI last July. I saw a couple bike boxes arriving with mine at Omaha, that were not wearing any TSA tape and appeared to be unmolested by the TSA.
My understanding was that bike boxes were too large to fit through the cargo X-ray scanners and therefore had to be searched by hand. Perhaps this has changed and a few select airports now have large enough scanners... or these unopened boxes were small enough to fit through the existing scanners.