Skipness,
Loganair in it's current form does indeed operate as a franchise of FlyBE (except for it's interisland operations) but what I was referring to was the greater part of the old Loganair which was merged with Manx Airlines in about 1994. That then became British Regional Airlines and the Twin Otter, Islander operations and the name Loganair were sold to Scott Grier about 1997. He quickly leased some Shorts 360's and started operating routes that BRA no longer wanted, eventually taking over all of the intra Scotland and some other routes and operating them with SAAB 340s.
Meanwhile British Regional was merged with Brymon in about 2001 to become BA Citiexpress which in turn was merged with the British Airways Regional operation to become BA Connect in early 2006. BA Connect was finally sold by BA to FlyBE in 2007 for £10 with a £100 million sweetener. So a large part of the airline known as Loganair up until the mid ninties has actually ended up as part of FlyBE.