Hawaiian Airlines plans to buy at least five more Airbus A330-200s as it continues to expand its fleet in preparation for adding new routes over the next decade.

The state’s oldest carrier, which two days ago announced it would inaugurate Honolulu-New York service in June, said Thursday it has signed a firm order with Airbus to purchase the additional aircraft for delivery between 2013 and 2015, with purchase rights for an additional three A330s. The five firm orders bring the total Hawaiian plans to purchase between 2013 and 2015 to 13. The airline also is scheduled to have four A330s delivered next year.

Hawaiian’s A330 deliveries between 2013 and 2015 will offset the retirement of 10 Boeing 767-300 aircraft over approximately the same period, as the company continues its transition to a new fleet of A330s and A350XWB (extra-wide-body) 800s for its North America and international service.

The A330s carry 294 passengers, 30 more than Hawaiian’s current fleet of 16 Boeing 767-300 aircraft. The A330s are more fuel-efficient than the B767s and have a longer operating range. Hawaiian already is using A330s for its Honolulu service to Las Vegas, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Tokyo, and also will use the aircraft for its New York service that begins June 4 from Honolulu.

Hawaiian spokesman Keoni Wagner said Thursday that response to the scheduled four-day, $212 one-way fare special for the New York route was "phenomenal" and that tickets for the June promotion period were sold out in less than 12 hours.

"By 2 p.m. (Wednesday) we had sold more than 8,000 seats — enough to fill 27 A330 aircraft," he said. "A majority of the tickets were purchased in Hawaii, but there was strong response on both ends of the route."

Within the past year Hawaiian has launched three new routes between Honolulu and Asia — Tokyo (November 2010), Seoul (January 2011) and Osaka, Japan (July 2011) — and will begin service to Fukuoka, Japan, on April 16.

Hawaiian said new services are expected to be announced in the coming months.

The longer-range A350s, which Hawaiian will begin receiving in 2017, will seat more than 300 passengers and allow Hawaiian to fly nonstop to any major destination in the world. The airline has confirmed agreements to acquire six A350s, along with purchase rights for an additional six.

Separately, Hawaiian topped 16 domestic airlines for on-time performance. In September 95.5 percent of its flights arrived on time, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Air Travel Consumer Report issued Thursday. The national average was 83.9 percent.

The airline also had the fewest canceled flights during the month with three cancellations out of 5,368 flights, or less than 0.1 percent. It was fifth in fewest mishandled bags with 1,498 reports, or 2.26 per 1,000 passengers, and also fifth in consumer complaints with five, or 0.72 per 100,000 passengers.

Hawaiian had the second-lowest rate in the category of oversales, reported on a quarterly basis, with three involuntary denied boardings out of nearly 2.3 million passengers, or 0.01 per 10,000 passengers.