The Devs already made the Beluga redundant by over-nerfing into a cheap shiny bauble barely worth more than a T-9 that gets violently outperformed by an anaconda at every type of passenger mission. Period. As the owner of every big ship in game, I can say from experience it's the least satisfactory purchase you can make. Only reason I'm using a Beluga for passenger stuff is I hate the idea of using an anaconda for everything. [EDIT :] Also, boosting through a mailslot with 6 wanted criminals on board with the big fins is a cool challenge [/edit]
The only reason anyone should buy a Beluga over a 'Conda is if they're broke (or they really like shiny things), but it is not, as stated, the "apex" passenger ship - not by a long shot. This is partly due to the stubbornly shoehorned supremacy of the anaconda that FD enforces at the cost of other ships' comparative value, but the facts remain : The Beluga ain't worth it right now. Now the Orca's a completely different deal, especially now, but forget about the Beluga.
Seriously, luxury missions are meaningless ; their payout isin't worth wasting an internal that's going to serve as a smaller first class cabin... Which it will inevitably be given mission rarity and how empirically not superior the payout from most luxury missions is (luxury elite missions pay better, but most luxury missions don't require elite rank and therefore offer no advantages over luxury ones).
The way I see it, replacing one of the military slots on the cutter by a trading internal (for passenger cabins, cargo and HRPs) would both soft-nerf its combat ability and tankyness and somewhat make it a more believable luxury ship - on top of not making it better in any way, because luxury slots are, as always, utterly pointless.
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