Brazil President Dilma Rousseff is considering a plan to open up Brazil’s domestic airline market to foreign carriers, in hopes the competition will force flight prices down and prevent gouging as thousands of tourists are expected to come to the country for the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

“We have not taken a decision as yet, but if there is abuse that is one of the measures being considered,” said Gleisi Hoffmann, Rousseff’s chief of staff, who adds that the government is still in discussions with the two domestic carriers that rule the domestic market.

Brazil expects 600,000 foreign tourists to travel to the country for this year’s soccer tournament, which will be played in a dozen cities between 12 June and 13 July.  Three million Brazilians will join international visitors in traveling around the country to see the games.

With only a few months to go, six of the 12 stadiums are still incomplete.  And although FIFA says it believes the venues will be ready for the games, it had expressed concerns with Brazil’s lack of preparations on other fronts, such as too few hotel rooms and overcrowded airports.

“Brazil has now realized that it started up too late,” said FIFA president Sepp Blatter to a Swiss newspaper.  “It is the country with the biggest delays in World Cup preparations since I became president.  And it is the one that had the most time to get ready, seven years.”