Turns out, those basic Economy Class missions are so profitable they make Sothis/Ceos in 2.1 look like chump change. We're talking anywhere from 60-100 million per hour.
Here's how it works:
1) Find a system where most delivery/transport missions all send you to the same system/station (like, you now, Aditi, Ceos, Sothis, or any other system like those, plenty out there)
2) Get to allied rep with most/all of the factions there
3) Fill up your internal slots with Economy Class cabins (keep one for shields, one for cargo). In an Anaconda, you should be able to get at least 168 Economy Class seats.
4) Take basic transport missions, all going to the same destination (a nearby system) until your Economy Class seats are full. These passengers are treated like cargo, so you can take as many missions as you want until your seats are full, none of this "one mission per cabin" thing
5) Deliver the cargo passengers to their destination
6) Repeat on the way back to the original system
Once you're allied, Economy Class passenger transport missions pay up to 68k per passenger. That means an Anaconda can make up to 11 million per haul, or 22 million per round-trip.
Unlike Ceos/Sothis in 2.1, you don't need an engineered A-grade FSD, or weapons, or anything like that. The systems I've tried send you to a system 11ly away. Ceos/Sothis are 8.9ly apart. And these missions are often for 10-20 passengers, so often 1-2 board refreshes are all you need. Very quick, mabye 5-6 minutes from beginning to end.
And since passenger cabins max out at size 6, there's no advantage to having a Cutter - the Anaconda is king (even better than the Beluga for these Economy class missions).
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