I honestly don't think by March 2018 you will be in the way at all. Local people will be very HAPPY to have visitors come, those that do. Grocery stores have reopened (most of them) and gas stations have reopened, so there are not shortages of food or gasoline. March is another 5 months from now, so the conditions should improve significantly before then, both at the airport and around both nations. The larger question is whether YOU will be ready for what you would encounter. While a lot of it will be cleaned up, there will still be plenty of devastation evident everywhere. How will that make you feel? What is your PURPOSE in going? If your PURPOSE is to go on a vacation, and enjoy yourself, you may fall short in that goal. If you want to go and help out the island, and can be perfectly happy with a cooler on the beach at Club O for the day, you may be OK. My suggestion would be to wait a couple of months and see how things shake out and then decide. However, if you need to decide something now, make up your mind which is more important and if you decide to go, prepare to be VERY flexible. We went to SXM in February 1996, after Luis, and stayed at L'hoste and spent every day under a yellow umbrella. Papagayo was gone. They were cooking burgers on a grill and serving drinks out of a cooler and that was good with us. Back then there wasn't nearly as much there on Orient as there is now. It was a different time..