JL Childress Gate Check Bag for Car Seats, Red

This bag is for when you take your car seat through the airport and check it at the airplane itself - gate checking! It's made to keep it clean, and yes I have had baby things come back pretty dirty, but not often. It then folds right back up in it's little bag. It is NOT made to go through airport baggage where it's on the conveyor belts and thrown around like crazy. If you look at the other bad reviews, they are almost all made by folks who have checked this as baggage, not gate checking.
By the way, if you are gate checking spend the best $15 of your life and get Traveling Toddler Car Seat Travel Accessory. Use it with a sturdy carry on bag with a long enough handle that you don't have to stay bent over, and fill your carry on so it's solid. Filled with some of your and your childs things in it (we all know how invaluable...Read more

This fit our car seat perfectly (also allowing enough room to stash coats) but after just one flight, it already had 2 holes.

It's a big orange bag and for me it lasted exactly one trip (4 flights). It did protect the car seat inside decently enough, but the luggage handlers dragged it and just a little dragging across pavement ripped it.

It is bulky to carry with a car seat inside, hence why it was likely dragged. I'd recommend attempting to reinforce the bottom prior to traveling... maybe taping up the corners and bottom before the trip would give it a chance.