Will be a boon to the tourist and diaspora traffic back to the motherland, but will be meaningless for premium passengers that really want and need the non-stop traffic to DEL and BOM (for which there is already numerous nonstops from ORD and EWR/JFK). For premium passengers flying to other destinations in India that will require a stop anyway, LH seems to have cornered the Indian market. If you are flying to CCU, BLR, MAA or PNQ, it's annoying to arrive into India around midnight, clearing immigration then waiting until 6/7am for the early domestic flights.

AI has somewhat timed the arrivals right so that passengers can connect to major destinations upon arrival with an 8pm departure from DEL.