What A-Pay Decoder does

Alaska flight-attendant pay is genuinely hard to check. A single trip is credited across many categories — flight pay, per diem, boarding, over-duty and other premiums, longevity — split between the Rainmaker pay register and your PeopleSoft pay advice, and it's paid the month after you fly. A-Pay Decoder reads those documents right on your device, shows what each trip should pay straight from the AFA-CWA contract, and checks it against what Alaska actually credited and deposited — so you can catch a shortfall and take the exact contract section to your rep or Crew Pay. Nothing you upload ever leaves your phone.

How to get your PDFs

Three documents power this site. All of them come from Alaska's own systems, and all of them can be saved as PDFs right from your phone.

Saving anything as a PDF on an iPhone

You'll use this trick for the trip detail and the register:

1. From the page you want, tap Share (the square with the arrow), then Print.
2. On the print preview, pinch out (zoom) on the page thumbnail — it opens as a full PDF.
3. Tap Share again and choose Save to Files (or AirDrop / text it to yourself).

On Android, use the browser's Share → Print → Save as PDF — it downloads straight to your files.

1 · Trip detail (Roster Trip Information)

1. On your phone, sign in to Crew Access.
2. Open the trip from your schedule and bring up its details report.
3. Save it as a PDF using the iPhone trick above.

2 · Pay register (Crew Pay Details)

From Alaska's Rainmaker FA User Guide:

1. Open Rainmaker and sign in with your Alaska single sign-on.
2. Open Current Period (or Search Reports for an earlier month).
3. Expand the pay buckets you want included — the master [+] on the far right of the Crew member profile row expands everything at once.
4. Tap More (top right) → Print, choose your options, and select Print.
5. Save the print preview as a PDF using the iPhone trick above.

3 · Paystub (pay advice)

1. Open PeopleSoft employee self-service— the same place you'd update your W-4 or direct deposit.
2. Open your pay advices and pick the one you want. Each advice is already a PDF.
3. Download it or save it to Files.

Then upload it here

• Trip detail → open My Trips & Pay and tap Add documents — the site works out which file is which.
• Pay register and paystubs → same place: open My Trips & Pay and tap Add documents.
• You can select several PDFs at once — the site works out which document is which.

Keeping your history safe

Everything you save here lives only in this browser, on this device. It can go away:

• if you clear Safari's history or website data,
• in private browsing or an Incognito window — nothing saved there survives closing it,
• on a computer, if Chrome is set to delete site data when you close all windows (check Settings → Privacy and security → Site settings → On-device site data),
• after about a week of using Safari without visiting this site— Safari tidies up by deleting site data it hasn't seen used recently,
• on any other device or browser — your history never leaves this one, so it can't follow you on its own.

Back it up: on My Trips & Pay, tap Back up— it downloads one small file with your saved trips and documents. A good habit is one backup after you finish a month's uploads. Moving to a new phone or computer? AirDrop or copy the file across and tap Restorethere — restoring adds to what's already saved and never wipes your ledger; anything saved in both places keeps the backup's copy.

Or add this site to your Home Screen: in Safari, tap Share (the square with the arrow) → Add to Home Screen (on Android: browser menu → Add to Home screen). Opened from that icon, the site runs as its own app — and Safari's week-long cleanup no longer applies to it.

What we count

So we know what to build next, the app records a few anonymous milestones — that a trip was decoded, that a month was checked. Each one is just the name of the thing that happened plus a random ID for your device.

That counting never includes your documents, your name, your employee ID, your trip numbers, or any dollar amount. Your PDFs are still read entirely on your device and never uploaded.

There is one other way something reaches us, and only if you choose it: if an upload fails, the “Report this” button fills in the file name and the line we couldn’t read — and, if a trip failed to price, its trip number and leg routes too. You see exactly what it says and can edit or delete it first, and nothing is sent until you tap “Send feedback.”