Hey, whatever works the best. All we can do is to try to minimize the damage risk as best we can with the packing technique.
After that, it's a big roulette wheel of how the box is treated.
I've kind of learned to not worry once it's out of my sight going down the conveyor belt....
I posted the photos of how Raleigh packed my road bike at this link:
Bike Bag vs Bike Box for Air travel?
They packed the front wheel on the non-drive side. And looking at it closely, they even have the crank arm (wrapped in cardboard) in between some of the spokes. I reposted that same photo here:
But, with the wheel zip-tied to the frame so it can't move around very much, there probably is no danger of having the crank arm in between the spokes. On the drive side, they zip-tied the crank arm to the rear wheel in a way that neither rear wheel or crank can turn.
I can see some method to this way of packing, but it clearly is the level of detail that would be hard for a typical traveler to remember to do if they were packing up a bike. That could be a very long check list of things to do in order.