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Ryan told me about this ^ when we were in Barcalona in the summer. He thought that people would take more care of a bike that they could see.
The thing is with a bag you can put you pads, mallets, locks and shoes in there. When I fly with my bike it always with polo stuff and it wouldnt work if those things couldn't go into the hold (I also nearly missed a flight in aus because they were not happy about the mini d in my hand luggage)
If you have a lot of stuff you can split more weight this way as well.
I have seen quite a few airports that will have a box that you can borrow, but the only time I have used one it was open at the other end. Luckily nothing was missing, but I was put off using one again