The baggage people have just confirmed it was not on the later flight from LAX. They have telexed AA and hopefully will have an update for me tonight when I get back from Sapporo. I've asked them to send it direct on the QF flight to AKL but they say it has to come through HKG. This will delay things even further.

Very stingy interim payout HKD100. That's about GBP20!