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I just flew with my race bike from NYC to London Heathrow. What I did was get a road bike box (was a merlin box) from my local shop in the states with all the packing material from the new merlin which came inside it. Disassembled my bike (just front and rear wheel, and remove bars from stem). Packed safely away in the double cardboard box and it made it here to London with no worries through 2 planes (I had to change in Washington DC).
A slight note, I know that customs unpacks these to some extent when checking for drugs or bombs or whatever else... I found it useful to customize your box and also write very general instructions on the inside of the top of the flaps (ie front wheel here, rear wheel here, bars horizontally here).
Had no issues doing this in the past for domestic flights as well.