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@30miles
Virgin Atlantic's per-bike weight limit has now dropped to 23kg (the first post suggests that it's still 32kg).
One additional note that might be worth mentioning is that you don't need to pre-book your bike with either BA or Virgin Atlantic: you can simply turn up at the airport with it.
And finally, if you're looking for a case, I'm fairly sure you can do better than this hard case from the Edinburgh Bicycle Cooperative. The clamps and catches have proven hopelessly fragile: there were six of them when Mrs 30miles bought her case, but three of them have broken in the space of just four flights, and she's now reliant on duct tape and luck to hold the thing together.
(I've got a Pika Packworks EEP, which is an absolutely fantastic piece of kit, but the shipping charges to the UK are prohibitively enormous. I picked mine up in the US after flying out there with my bike in a cardboard box.)